tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389025072024-02-28T14:25:47.795+01:00Backpacking Europe and AsiaTravel experiences and anecdotes from all over Asia and Eastern Europe.Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-49001045257391097622022-03-27T20:01:00.014+02:002022-03-27T20:01:00.163+02:00Ukraine - February 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">KYIV</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1nU6Am7ZF9cwt4JjfH_5aRjBAtt5MgUlC8WHidANlXsAYorcyGFUh8zZNW_QNdZZ0YKtP1e3QpMBZ7EcWg58JIhigO_1VAsff7mLKlC3P3KAzPOaof20-4mxpxs9uqe8z65LbZLoDV7GaoXmYiBusU9w5QuT0PEeb5kzlkjq6slquYyCVgso/s4000/Ukraine%2001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1nU6Am7ZF9cwt4JjfH_5aRjBAtt5MgUlC8WHidANlXsAYorcyGFUh8zZNW_QNdZZ0YKtP1e3QpMBZ7EcWg58JIhigO_1VAsff7mLKlC3P3KAzPOaof20-4mxpxs9uqe8z65LbZLoDV7GaoXmYiBusU9w5QuT0PEeb5kzlkjq6slquYyCVgso/s320/Ukraine%2001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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My route has been: Dushanbe, Khorog, Ishkashim, Wakhan Valley, Khorog, Murgab and on to Sary Tash in Kyrgyzstan.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOraneV_kf7Pwj3eKlyzVQAM-Gg40RoEZe4lY-0qtghY4BdgF20cC-aXF3IO6CEuNg2QZkqEfM7vadwEk8-DjIHrIQOZEMSnXQ4YPbIKZMWu7Sujc1a3z4S9xuk6Z5Bm5HNKJoaA/s1600-h/006.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOraneV_kf7Pwj3eKlyzVQAM-Gg40RoEZe4lY-0qtghY4BdgF20cC-aXF3IO6CEuNg2QZkqEfM7vadwEk8-DjIHrIQOZEMSnXQ4YPbIKZMWu7Sujc1a3z4S9xuk6Z5Bm5HNKJoaA/s320/006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397143296025372402" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dushanbe to Khorog</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OPUGqx0zyqGvHdVbyVYZPIvyM_JOMsH1ttQAV5HJAOZDOx-iC2WoMEfLtr6pp9qQ6BhJRne1ye9M718lbeXaf3_mfnXcj7k3aJET14o3OjhCdDXt2L9EP5mhGFeXhfeSzpP6CQ/s1600-h/Pamir+013.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5OPUGqx0zyqGvHdVbyVYZPIvyM_JOMsH1ttQAV5HJAOZDOx-iC2WoMEfLtr6pp9qQ6BhJRne1ye9M718lbeXaf3_mfnXcj7k3aJET14o3OjhCdDXt2L9EP5mhGFeXhfeSzpP6CQ/s320/Pamir+013.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397137787751858018" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23Lq8zopTbqNN8OrETZmiJo8h_TMI_l_CSeVuntGuk_-I1JRlN96VqMp1AEyyiw5xekK-CP5Y9Ihqw5_wGEzgUYxh0vWw2P-dwVDhBsF9AmkUiMcL5HoQSgNsrpKlYzmkWxjgmA/s1600-h/Pamir+009.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg23Lq8zopTbqNN8OrETZmiJo8h_TMI_l_CSeVuntGuk_-I1JRlN96VqMp1AEyyiw5xekK-CP5Y9Ihqw5_wGEzgUYxh0vWw2P-dwVDhBsF9AmkUiMcL5HoQSgNsrpKlYzmkWxjgmA/s320/Pamir+009.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397141382879387234" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Khorog</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizatj_mk9Y7NsxiQuOUCWoXBk5k-RlXJ0lV3vnVIR-usYnb0ZxcyU9npteOfjTb4PveimHCfT6a6Qtjn1XxtZEGOU-nZYuNx1vPbUhzgil2UF1CxWaJP7gjzNsKkSYnU1HSJmy9w/s1600-h/Pamir+021.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizatj_mk9Y7NsxiQuOUCWoXBk5k-RlXJ0lV3vnVIR-usYnb0ZxcyU9npteOfjTb4PveimHCfT6a6Qtjn1XxtZEGOU-nZYuNx1vPbUhzgil2UF1CxWaJP7gjzNsKkSYnU1HSJmy9w/s320/Pamir+021.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397137785365286898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQTkgY3gpXpRETPVWIfoaFu1ljaKN_ojP5SsD8lwg29hI6EA75TmHri_L9IkKtyIYha7lI9-i2T7uIdNOC9ubbTr7d7uOX2YsXWeOODGoqLkUrKn-zG1qwkyobmA4BIoSnkH1MQ/s1600-h/Pamir+029.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXQTkgY3gpXpRETPVWIfoaFu1ljaKN_ojP5SsD8lwg29hI6EA75TmHri_L9IkKtyIYha7lI9-i2T7uIdNOC9ubbTr7d7uOX2YsXWeOODGoqLkUrKn-zG1qwkyobmA4BIoSnkH1MQ/s320/Pamir+029.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397137779541575538" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">On the road to Ishkashim</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKbK5kjxfUlQH5LVOlD8NXtUDuFvUlrIU5O6gcguqQrZQhVb8IgVmqDNzUbRKyF3NArB71hHMH8BpPnjAlsx9Cj02ihrhmSibcaOd_J9dXvPD1tpUZVvCe3tLILT8GgG5cZyELg/s1600-h/Pamir+041.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKbK5kjxfUlQH5LVOlD8NXtUDuFvUlrIU5O6gcguqQrZQhVb8IgVmqDNzUbRKyF3NArB71hHMH8BpPnjAlsx9Cj02ihrhmSibcaOd_J9dXvPD1tpUZVvCe3tLILT8GgG5cZyELg/s320/Pamir+041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397137771984180834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4Okj8gHiRDZmj3rFlgLBGDVoLM6Aq2ZI8tFfkzvbikaJmxTjnpFa15arJrFd90H7JFe8CnjulX1Fn6LSaUT6YihihBmSp61YcLL4heIKrnFLhPGN3WTWVvum8d19mbZdjdNYAA/s1600-h/Pamir+049.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-4Okj8gHiRDZmj3rFlgLBGDVoLM6Aq2ZI8tFfkzvbikaJmxTjnpFa15arJrFd90H7JFe8CnjulX1Fn6LSaUT6YihihBmSp61YcLL4heIKrnFLhPGN3WTWVvum8d19mbZdjdNYAA/s320/Pamir+049.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397137770123880386" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6XGyUlr_HX4wm9psfghyphenhyphen_ap-lOR1FKDTT47GpP-63VxuLc0nfAxK_UaDLKpcj31DhGD_H_6JCPJe59zOju1ufgRV3WialI1zcYp07ZjlK8cEbuN6B5GhcogqO-rKNMyHjspC-w/s1600-h/Pamir+058.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim6XGyUlr_HX4wm9psfghyphenhyphen_ap-lOR1FKDTT47GpP-63VxuLc0nfAxK_UaDLKpcj31DhGD_H_6JCPJe59zOju1ufgRV3WialI1zcYp07ZjlK8cEbuN6B5GhcogqO-rKNMyHjspC-w/s320/Pamir+058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397119863415606722" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The beautiful Wakhan valley</span>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> On the other side of the river Pyanj lies Afghanistan</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3eEc7yZzNHnb2GSoh72TngGJE0bRmuJvuteBuz8k7RdyxKSfEW1-FOGPzt5HCmOxmybIuaKXWagighOOQ42_tjxqtiRM3K-B3m1Up-Hazs2qw0x2DVO0fUYKcC75STdivEKGX/s1600-h/Pamir+064.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3eEc7yZzNHnb2GSoh72TngGJE0bRmuJvuteBuz8k7RdyxKSfEW1-FOGPzt5HCmOxmybIuaKXWagighOOQ42_tjxqtiRM3K-B3m1Up-Hazs2qw0x2DVO0fUYKcC75STdivEKGX/s320/Pamir+064.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397119853347335042" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAhdHVq925f0VGS4APoGrLbJdrLNu7n4hAHoF0oXBDU6nF0cOXoG_tu8iqkuyaYdmqnRvyPnLbqHr0cTGDgs09nTFeERucEaRdZMNG0OK2IjCIeMcIpUBXTPJlU4CJ6B3WtgC/s1600-h/Pamir+069.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie79kqiqFIj2BjoM0TGR92MSa3OZwQaa4vLbXXJzfzw1CTgw3NYLbTXKfj3PyH5LnwjZNA9Z_7sFFAJ210VqjFdKScsF0W-p7hOhYGyo265JLDL9WYB3ueCipb_WKXtQhSGJPO/s320/Pamir+154.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The edge of civilization: Murgab (3600m)</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5b2NDkFUp5MwJDe0cp3w3xNUiSskk7mnXLv59EUg7wBiSQvHr7yRJO2z7mEtJnzqrPDwtVRTQ0YwhnkgtdzaUXxjm894-2T-3PGcyDIYtV0qyT0bn03e2oNmgQ1MBOeiWdgns/s1600-h/Pamir+160.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396840154020322130" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5b2NDkFUp5MwJDe0cp3w3xNUiSskk7mnXLv59EUg7wBiSQvHr7yRJO2z7mEtJnzqrPDwtVRTQ0YwhnkgtdzaUXxjm894-2T-3PGcyDIYtV0qyT0bn03e2oNmgQ1MBOeiWdgns/s320/Pamir+160.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhquGKNga33VdRU_teOzXNWN4RXUASJf_ByhUK5Dj2SzYm9KtBX7gNmaQp_-6NHQetp_fEmO1KiPvYJfm9QrCBNxpP6Jq6h3mHhujRh0fdqQNXD9FoR1vk3GrDUVKB8z3cgG3PJ/s1600-h/Pamir+167.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396840149449702226" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; width: 214px; cursor: pointer; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyU-HYfm461adHiwrQs3dS93qzRqqQZ0TnNBLhuXQ960rYcO5be41d1SdEcnLatSs1tfhPIUR_zyQ0vQaMjmEzdNiFdKUlg0aYdhFovj3gYA-7X97xmSB2m3esSkaltqPU1vHX/s320/Pamir+182.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Murgab to Kyrgyz border</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJz1vGL1mVZNxvivhr42Lb-9ibSSLGMqC5I_Yo57K4T6QRKNQF99S-jeJq5TX0onvIuG3sg_BRgTt7lH2QhqQRS9FRkpwl_rKslXmZAeCXIV9kvCUM1rnTwQsMC-w1OebdwlCl/s1600-h/Pamir+192.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396834172576698226" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJz1vGL1mVZNxvivhr42Lb-9ibSSLGMqC5I_Yo57K4T6QRKNQF99S-jeJq5TX0onvIuG3sg_BRgTt7lH2QhqQRS9FRkpwl_rKslXmZAeCXIV9kvCUM1rnTwQsMC-w1OebdwlCl/s320/Pamir+192.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWuhnR_WZNUPZtb97_O5xOBBPbekRegaB51S8zOcxxtlun_jzJb_93Kk0Kj7l9atPY6sre-Yrvm8XDGYptZ7lLEWQzbJ8Y3zwPZ7kTT8S5oxbN2RmN27qBpr0Sks1LP2kP9_b-/s1600-h/Pamir+193.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396834171495046850" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWuhnR_WZNUPZtb97_O5xOBBPbekRegaB51S8zOcxxtlun_jzJb_93Kk0Kj7l9atPY6sre-Yrvm8XDGYptZ7lLEWQzbJ8Y3zwPZ7kTT8S5oxbN2RmN27qBpr0Sks1LP2kP9_b-/s320/Pamir+193.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjlmSVUMJvR8SiTqoBGF93Rbj6kcAlW5T1qXJHEpCzeQGsp_31Ar2FKXRMd-4N4av0XX51uEBYR6DMNql1A1phoqcrsZ6N5Jb9EzwIUW3GDQCGTYIFWneVSAGcf_egg-1ZKmO/s1600-h/Pamir+199.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396834164586030530" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjlmSVUMJvR8SiTqoBGF93Rbj6kcAlW5T1qXJHEpCzeQGsp_31Ar2FKXRMd-4N4av0XX51uEBYR6DMNql1A1phoqcrsZ6N5Jb9EzwIUW3GDQCGTYIFWneVSAGcf_egg-1ZKmO/s320/Pamir+199.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tajik - Kyrgyz border at Kyzyl-Art pass (4200m)</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-f6xKq9143cJCzx8g5-KsUNuFKkJEe_wyGyUEy1AR2PMWRq7U3Z7-g0FahbFO1ULh-O1aofl5wb_HZQAKqq2xl6Mze6PqgWR4UDmEZSsg-s5u8g-U9KMO5SBUft2bvaJg9-v/s1600-h/Pamir+209.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396834159297538914" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-f6xKq9143cJCzx8g5-KsUNuFKkJEe_wyGyUEy1AR2PMWRq7U3Z7-g0FahbFO1ULh-O1aofl5wb_HZQAKqq2xl6Mze6PqgWR4UDmEZSsg-s5u8g-U9KMO5SBUft2bvaJg9-v/s320/Pamir+209.jpg" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKyMFY0_FqOF4pCJxgfqrsSKK9VdvsNfedocfHmGJG9MiGi4YKwKWbegBtXpBFV2qRppVBBsL7g_qhEz8NRHEJIX9pdv4qu-S9x0eViGXu6ainov9QyigbRMQN8-ruzoc5yZB9/s1600-h/Pamir+211.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396834156900084002" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKyMFY0_FqOF4pCJxgfqrsSKK9VdvsNfedocfHmGJG9MiGi4YKwKWbegBtXpBFV2qRppVBBsL7g_qhEz8NRHEJIX9pdv4qu-S9x0eViGXu6ainov9QyigbRMQN8-ruzoc5yZB9/s320/Pamir+211.jpg" border="0" /></a>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-52214335526079749552009-10-07T20:27:00.010+02:002009-10-07T23:17:34.793+02:00Amazing TajikistanSome photos from my first two weeks in the republic of Tajikistan. As with all the other countries I visited in the past half year, the stories will come later.......<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TaWeC-g1LWG6xo8vIp22g6t1uZcAzTM7VOcyOOetrT4nJk9fUUhWUpkdTK7J0F8wv3URaAKOVL7BudaxP3itUISloBEC49-ftOX9838v7yl2FrFhKjj3AzYmsf3uzyHJ_sF7/s1600-h/Foto+527.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5TaWeC-g1LWG6xo8vIp22g6t1uZcAzTM7VOcyOOetrT4nJk9fUUhWUpkdTK7J0F8wv3URaAKOVL7BudaxP3itUISloBEC49-ftOX9838v7yl2FrFhKjj3AzYmsf3uzyHJ_sF7/s320/Foto+527.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389967817314210338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dushanbe</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomGDJHNysSt1xorMywvMPnetjWfylS9YcdqbOeZky0GEeU_YjyshMu7KbuNfUv1OIXKOCum59fXGVo9URzQNKAOORN8fkm-fPShoDg1PI-LgTOpkw787lAmxSE7WGhUdVwRjB/s1600-h/Foto+487.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhomGDJHNysSt1xorMywvMPnetjWfylS9YcdqbOeZky0GEeU_YjyshMu7KbuNfUv1OIXKOCum59fXGVo9URzQNKAOORN8fkm-fPShoDg1PI-LgTOpkw787lAmxSE7WGhUdVwRjB/s320/Foto+487.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389967813439530866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRiF_I2nr6IeQtQHCJttHUCtJH-0xfQU5fvqx4uWn03B_OnENk7uyvVjti-oo0-ZZ1s_rXjxLuTEblpgpt-HUtyMXCf0pH3RtrQkkU2K5TCeAN33gXKleOqaHqWqy0fkqUK2XD/s1600-h/Foto+485.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRiF_I2nr6IeQtQHCJttHUCtJH-0xfQU5fvqx4uWn03B_OnENk7uyvVjti-oo0-ZZ1s_rXjxLuTEblpgpt-HUtyMXCf0pH3RtrQkkU2K5TCeAN33gXKleOqaHqWqy0fkqUK2XD/s320/Foto+485.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389967803078790482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4u7RtSP0CpMrE4P0BnbHS2_7CypES1GlmQusZfNXb8UwqDgvmc4XHG1ILQbvjPpcIVJe9bHxvkEi1JtJW2JLmIsnxKA4GZGb9liDQF4_BJlgkaYyOKkIDRDXu8xXxgCpC8zp/s1600-h/Foto+474.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv4u7RtSP0CpMrE4P0BnbHS2_7CypES1GlmQusZfNXb8UwqDgvmc4XHG1ILQbvjPpcIVJe9bHxvkEi1JtJW2JLmIsnxKA4GZGb9liDQF4_BJlgkaYyOKkIDRDXu8xXxgCpC8zp/s320/Foto+474.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389967790413927090" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYHoUd-q1-68vu6bLFWESO1oaOqIC5XQVgyum1Yq9z03XFKIojvh4MKqj3_APmJyjtpDr_vbyuEjb_YmUt7UvUjw6nRbdxAdg8FfExJgzWRg4YQVyZO7m75u4EnVsgKbXJygE/s1600-h/Foto+472.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSYHoUd-q1-68vu6bLFWESO1oaOqIC5XQVgyum1Yq9z03XFKIojvh4MKqj3_APmJyjtpDr_vbyuEjb_YmUt7UvUjw6nRbdxAdg8FfExJgzWRg4YQVyZO7m75u4EnVsgKbXJygE/s320/Foto+472.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389965577206967618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsxq0G8x54Qz8RmJL6t2ejcTuJ_6EFMWBj5UZ1xyYGj1fAmKZEv14-Fi1RZD0T3DKovP81VO9ca8qZ5IqjxN95kdJfNKmJ7PPyX8OECW8X4bQmfLVsrYbMBhJUj704HEzDwWe/s1600-h/Foto+469.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsxq0G8x54Qz8RmJL6t2ejcTuJ_6EFMWBj5UZ1xyYGj1fAmKZEv14-Fi1RZD0T3DKovP81VO9ca8qZ5IqjxN95kdJfNKmJ7PPyX8OECW8X4bQmfLVsrYbMBhJUj704HEzDwWe/s320/Foto+469.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389965567732492482" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDISKtBflEL7oXQlgL_ggbtGQ0p6f4-Io0iKCtldhCpBPtnBNLEWjBAJOfjfTmjaSMXh-SRQX3Xx-va1Emi0ezI3eHK2Lsm-7V0Bjxbn0raH5Bl-CoWm-GtvsX0ZzvAYKGnIZ/s1600-h/Foto+468.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxDISKtBflEL7oXQlgL_ggbtGQ0p6f4-Io0iKCtldhCpBPtnBNLEWjBAJOfjfTmjaSMXh-SRQX3Xx-va1Emi0ezI3eHK2Lsm-7V0Bjxbn0raH5Bl-CoWm-GtvsX0ZzvAYKGnIZ/s320/Foto+468.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389965558985547378" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">On the road to Iskander Kul</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTQBmFxhAdjYSofmtEdMUja_lcA4RylxY5T1szflP_aGUKRcmMdcbZKd4i3JhSaekmw09GACER5fJj1q6eZmzCXqHwfGFATKw4ZBXBeu7E-7R_M9-RqfxPwn8L18IURStvRYv/s1600-h/Foto+466.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390175418386462018" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3iOB3P_dWDlKvd-v2nZw_ov8wW_uxIY_LzF9xar9uGBVQfIHyZonsqOZ6L8-MJIhznh0EVOSKh3lyyRUdxMfJMd7gPs8dZ8HhQRkPDo3HL1JcKZYsAeoIIwpUBuRrZtXOPxpM/s320/Foto+287.jpg" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Dubai (UAE)</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtlyKeW8O3weIpvkMV_vZo-l6YIaxEY_kuxVFc4HiMaiJeb_2DEZLWTJ7YlBUU1_J6WIVhz4hwrNjLr4Z0zfw9NpoOyausq6TSyarRD6GqScNl7QFEh3lcKfFxdJ7QmD-V7R-/s1600-h/Foto+320.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390175412271270786" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEtlyKeW8O3weIpvkMV_vZo-l6YIaxEY_kuxVFc4HiMaiJeb_2DEZLWTJ7YlBUU1_J6WIVhz4hwrNjLr4Z0zfw9NpoOyausq6TSyarRD6GqScNl7QFEh3lcKfFxdJ7QmD-V7R-/s320/Foto+320.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJAIm87gIotuSeep4X4ojmqI_VgRncwOT2S_g1m3SgeoPKwQWU46NQdl7xcay3nSylpoKVFGaKC2KlFhZT5IftTGrW_0oOEXJd-IaT0qHdImtoh9tmj0EIXm4SQdC7pvjnlow/s1600-h/Foto+321.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390175403274221794" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKJAIm87gIotuSeep4X4ojmqI_VgRncwOT2S_g1m3SgeoPKwQWU46NQdl7xcay3nSylpoKVFGaKC2KlFhZT5IftTGrW_0oOEXJd-IaT0qHdImtoh9tmj0EIXm4SQdC7pvjnlow/s320/Foto+321.jpg" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSi4T18aUALIgmzlVGC4Zc6JwmhH9b_uNsulaJWiEmXEMt5-H3DmyrKNDb54kD1tunURnSvolQubHFGus8N4tr-T5F18IBuewPOluW5UVdrOmdzPJyB6pZ0q8tJ7iK7xRPY1J-/s1600-h/Foto+325.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: pointer" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390175395767279234" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSi4T18aUALIgmzlVGC4Zc6JwmhH9b_uNsulaJWiEmXEMt5-H3DmyrKNDb54kD1tunURnSvolQubHFGus8N4tr-T5F18IBuewPOluW5UVdrOmdzPJyB6pZ0q8tJ7iK7xRPY1J-/s320/Foto+325.jpg" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-44039369662840437332009-04-20T06:58:00.000+02:002022-10-07T21:57:45.226+02:00More pictures of Vietnam part 1<strong>Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon)</strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350386148774556370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHHrcw3U7A9Lj2lEV0_cy5ZNzecAX7nyqTHkVDxh_zLqItRtD15GIA8iBKya8LbcZK1kggKdv4EN7gGzOXRyoRH5uJeX54V5tNIjOIf0Zrpw4eW1FfsDFTsZrFOZZCKjzT9jjB/s320/IMG_2369.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350386141991701170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMsRjxz9xvzs7GS1MzKFx8uOH9Yz0zeqtzACTWbK4nFIUOwvy-Qk2xNLN8_0FT3NY6ZD95YWmfaylJsvWv0sEN-YVT_qqTn_WphSyfhdEYI8Kc-j0aZo9PtSvhnFHKsS9it4qM/s320/IMG_2383.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350386132863228834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH6dx8zoOWGU9gEMa3VPfeBHe8t6DoKpP_Ml4QOXB4kisVvwWIkYlpfSYR0OTnRE9KA7w6gtN6GAYWi3rIMjV768HcdEOhfgtw-n-EKYpIhLRKZwWYRBT5svgcN55bMrcMazgk/s320/IMG_2387.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350386130060137362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7nEsh6XDDVa9Yg5nKhI4Esy4BVTyk56J_CDa0gf1HMsr3zMkkSCKUCEqhbsoRv1xTYP2T0GEkvW0UsvDH2FQGaqFjZUiGsjv0xWojV8pRjVBXdwkVyJ11kaNddgbYoTEzo5DC/s320/IMG_2407.JPG" style="cursor: hand; 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display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>Ban Tre and the Mekong Delta<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350386124192148754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxxm2gIBNiyQe9B3aYtTDQZmsUcwKxEJnU-lx9m0bGgCw_nz3U_0X8CToEfjL3TXn2mPjanZ4uSA65cYtefhDUsyet8D7AgoHKIVYtYxCy9lXpoS7CtFunqOFqU2MH1dCkoHs/s320/IMG_2456.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350385351109910562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjdUDBOEqFb0JfKrDySypzrnQCElFquwnYiWockQIlUhNns11RMkhF4fuPSAc4edd_cIXR4ZoppXniq7OkA6YG_MLF5nDb8ntt9rkG5EFPKPIAHgtzp-ke5bfBeW2R6pejNqt/s320/IMG_2467.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>Cao Dai church at Tay Ninh<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350385348945428306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_-UJd4J6NKfxbwAbzHJyZ9uvwzAdIyJFY4ZURDTrPL0sO5z-XcuV6lnpode0JGkCjaiViVx7LwSB96qFlWSBN0yO7005iQlRoc988GwszZ9kI6217m049PHBRDrfSIp8sPWXy/s320/IMG_2517.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />Cu Chi tunnels<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350385342859881522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvCQp6yvooJo1CN2GL2CI_hWzIvB23LVp1VKyNyuNwKL1XTrsj07wyhQFFBHgbr8dMgCQCUdD3wNfn6fnZ8pEbipxPNAia-FK-bXEqNo3hwiQZonygQqi3n0nZEQIGsCs_q7I1/s320/IMG_2544.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" />Hoi An<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350384621147636322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE-9DyDzp8YI2PpDkqxExnBKR14gwKWI1LfXvzsyseCLBiZR-VtidCFV7LPPkEXmTeMJpxZoHbrklPe-zreCbkRqFQ0gW9gynqGGGxbMOcTpPjePZ9OBOTP9XWjCphFb0cQ7E7/s320/IMG_3267.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350384618828369778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAQYEPpNxOs8LQyGHHIvAl2lVKgGi3dy-zJUd_DpK3IF6NHQMqNZf0yic_yCgdpuIv2E5VdORxwBplPKpz6E4eJmmDp9gr7z-qoyHOE4UyBtD7Kg-Dz62blSN2P84B_ay5SDi/s320/IMG_3268.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>China beach, Hoi An<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350384613283419682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFS9i62d3GCBpoinrtUSus9X9aVz7msJRi7qi6xlP2_Y6MoQGwDESKLmu-3B2nzeE7K0a5MXirEZDv16s3MHZl1pZkwNOVFMq_4nqgDSNGYmBuFc0phW3ijpFYCygThDehVAsL/s320/IMG_3270.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />My Son</strong> <strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350384608571728514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZoy0clIoWORYwQVGX8q_v7ejxGBsTIe6Myy-Ks6e5tURG_xho9etNSmD2AbDmdHDSpBBflrQnol02TN1loja-vQXe0HyDLB5eB9kClM7LDAhrm3ULy_H2-LKsn00MASG9rim/s320/IMG_3288.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350383746858449730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaksh-lNgIm36G7z3OuOWJ3XrLr5nwfCP5vwi_H3dHax3_GQDhCNBiK-JuiA4d6TaWT2mrQlk0WRaeRSjDB381rnX_YfMerHSsqM-s2NPVaHaIhYifQZvMDGy52i-3PTz5Bnv8/s320/IMG_3292.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>Hue<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350383737188419362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYl9vXQFyBEJTkXUICrQX2PAx-EYbHKH1Qj-woKPwFWHK03PsuQb5gRQRaJsnqZhp4FtjOx5KiqSvKdmEke9PBpriJQkdfdL-MhNsMpO6e2KsYso9cH71-k4kxDuhcueeESeZO/s320/IMG_3342.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350383733525790354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq6pL2q4DYSdoJiMDV53QRb69eRF8N_UPEhSiec1jenioTabujzwq7IYsxyQSttiYIZS_XQs_3J82N0aawKk-h5pSLFl_rjC2iU5nD-jkwQ83jpy2T-v7k76dHgDzYmktmeZcp/s320/IMG_3382.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /><strong>Hanoi<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350383730996369842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiittgkPvz8eMEPzDQvidGq68S2U1Fs1aK6qGjtbVXuVICBJrd12rMS3aH9jqha1NEwN2Qt2yifAgPMDCzBcE93J_8Bal8w9_dPYOmV-KYNj_cwJ3yBPgTL2lSAEFLfZpdlyl1q/s320/IMG_3384.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 214px;" /></strong><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350383720553640802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinLR0nbppOL8TQUdZ70mMgsv4IX9JCtionxe2zBciU62P_Dvq6jnok52mPlTDHcxt-TVHscEDLqCwCkb0A0YRs8gR8L4AgAVy7SVldzoZUpiDwKn1_pVK3bCKER5PfPwQ1PF4c/s320/IMG_3409.JPG" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 214px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" />Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-46481548422056813522009-03-31T04:56:00.005+02:002009-05-26T05:30:10.601+02:00More pictures of Cambodia<span style="font-weight: bold;">Chi Paht</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsHcZZE50kTpflUH6yIkQFGoRd0xhRbSzR0ozMypWTM-EWYj9andwZzKjNkh7Vqhk0ukgqdozxP8thYx7gDc716nL4MBMAFMi0HWwVR64BTZ0u6wPgww3HUAgeUzD2mP-uaVQ/s1600-h/IMG_1665.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqsHcZZE50kTpflUH6yIkQFGoRd0xhRbSzR0ozMypWTM-EWYj9andwZzKjNkh7Vqhk0ukgqdozxP8thYx7gDc716nL4MBMAFMi0HWwVR64BTZ0u6wPgww3HUAgeUzD2mP-uaVQ/s320/IMG_1665.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339962605746659154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhHG06l1r0kM4b0n6JAVXicJVSKmumgj2EcPuCT5Wt8snz_qfpB2FzqhxsWdX_2A2uSo6JEzvuVyX3U_QfYGUZs-xe1hrBb62xaWEiKIvfv7VvUbd0XKdzVwhZuonXueIvWD7/s1600-h/IMG_1674.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhHG06l1r0kM4b0n6JAVXicJVSKmumgj2EcPuCT5Wt8snz_qfpB2FzqhxsWdX_2A2uSo6JEzvuVyX3U_QfYGUZs-xe1hrBb62xaWEiKIvfv7VvUbd0XKdzVwhZuonXueIvWD7/s320/IMG_1674.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339962614558141394" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYhq3ClkvLCDijHXRPavWRg9Zxwz-Qzj0hzDzxxk3LPHxpasw0zsc0Ht8QbYpwTiukhJ2NmeNt5d2Gn75j5fOXtoPS5fWYj8P1rqXCmkhVZdThXbZFCaV5SVDF-MpBrXqnHXv/s1600-h/IMG_1684.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmYhq3ClkvLCDijHXRPavWRg9Zxwz-Qzj0hzDzxxk3LPHxpasw0zsc0Ht8QbYpwTiukhJ2NmeNt5d2Gn75j5fOXtoPS5fWYj8P1rqXCmkhVZdThXbZFCaV5SVDF-MpBrXqnHXv/s320/IMG_1684.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339962617495489938" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kampot</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipggatUSKRNfkLww_eCp5M5KRl33pYbGSOmY8DSET27AprUwZpo9cdzF1EklNSkzpHV37Qjbo_tz8UoK-RhhhTtQiIsuIP2YNfiSUz5rmFemgxEywxUvw5i-9hF54JuMU7X_lF/s1600-h/IMG_1749.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipggatUSKRNfkLww_eCp5M5KRl33pYbGSOmY8DSET27AprUwZpo9cdzF1EklNSkzpHV37Qjbo_tz8UoK-RhhhTtQiIsuIP2YNfiSUz5rmFemgxEywxUvw5i-9hF54JuMU7X_lF/s320/IMG_1749.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339963521998979058" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkA5GpTT-goBIGh3QOYqjOBLhDhBoYnurWqoWCHQNHaHk8WsuxH23mCqFYcR7gd4FZhfRzvrEyX2NjxIovk39fycsH6xeuKWZFMO9bzGCCjIEk8P_9r7_VFg-pvlYX4jZRxD8M/s1600-h/IMG_1751.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkA5GpTT-goBIGh3QOYqjOBLhDhBoYnurWqoWCHQNHaHk8WsuxH23mCqFYcR7gd4FZhfRzvrEyX2NjxIovk39fycsH6xeuKWZFMO9bzGCCjIEk8P_9r7_VFg-pvlYX4jZRxD8M/s320/IMG_1751.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339963524276266946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VyEw3kYID3XoL6Ptme5D0nwimnkSlAVx1tj3v79R9hXIhR9ms31PqRhSk89zsVViUui5y8qcDAO4KC35ml_tJJ4aqySnnSPEuD_IvhB3Dbq3BM5Niv-i-aSwstP7GWF28N8L/s1600-h/IMG_1778.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9VyEw3kYID3XoL6Ptme5D0nwimnkSlAVx1tj3v79R9hXIhR9ms31PqRhSk89zsVViUui5y8qcDAO4KC35ml_tJJ4aqySnnSPEuD_IvhB3Dbq3BM5Niv-i-aSwstP7GWF28N8L/s320/IMG_1778.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339963533106381794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Phnom Penh</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOMpjofuDIavOIMKfSjps1KXk2a50LC2a88PGRxJ_kr20_uyWdOmGMSNnL6O6nMD5XMa075cZaRnS6ezxhIcxqEEKRBfv97euyTZpL4dboJ3Hw9XKUNKLCapgHgHHwLalysj2/s1600-h/IMG_1916.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOMpjofuDIavOIMKfSjps1KXk2a50LC2a88PGRxJ_kr20_uyWdOmGMSNnL6O6nMD5XMa075cZaRnS6ezxhIcxqEEKRBfv97euyTZpL4dboJ3Hw9XKUNKLCapgHgHHwLalysj2/s320/IMG_1916.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339965291522613618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIFvN_Sb9QnoEcnrAW53Pe_Mca0CtkkC8KBkpf7nmq0hL4w_XQF8Y_EUZ2QIAiJc8m2IFk1HtYcEc67O4dwX7ynjgiMf3C8UARJu10uVNScqSwRt8kWsxYX1_9iInHEHAKQ0i/s1600-h/IMG_2150.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEIFvN_Sb9QnoEcnrAW53Pe_Mca0CtkkC8KBkpf7nmq0hL4w_XQF8Y_EUZ2QIAiJc8m2IFk1HtYcEc67O4dwX7ynjgiMf3C8UARJu10uVNScqSwRt8kWsxYX1_9iInHEHAKQ0i/s320/IMG_2150.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339965297923209458" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzMsZB8Y5vva_BHZIwL8N6T4XXKqOY-aVEJ0Gomdgtf1jWwJrdn9ETkywo-vOyB0DggUOqsOuE9N9DcPs0RP4Akl5uiqW32vdAbRX3aG7qZDBslKDz0wsXhZmYgiSXm0MazY_8/s1600-h/IMG_2074.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmhnoIcsnSrIjAoDXZEyREaSyjL6D0JqMz8D9qN6gqOmnDAOklV1869UBAzSlwipA6PAza4Xt2hs5gMj9pDlvH4fHrC6yjMR9Fb8PWN4ujuRnJuD7ZkDb0Dh-r7AVATE-TF31c/s320/IMG_2169.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339965313950440306" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Temples of Angkor </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzDGoc1jpcox2pSVyTmRrJUeV5E584xYG3j8gKNnkAekoGpu8dT1inpuvFVAijlBcf4qrIItWgSnNMTYpAr3_s_uGhtEi6DGG3YPic6qb2_Eygyl7wAyii_L4eFiwQFmpHPDQ/s1600-h/IMG_2313.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLzDGoc1jpcox2pSVyTmRrJUeV5E584xYG3j8gKNnkAekoGpu8dT1inpuvFVAijlBcf4qrIItWgSnNMTYpAr3_s_uGhtEi6DGG3YPic6qb2_Eygyl7wAyii_L4eFiwQFmpHPDQ/s320/IMG_2313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339967147470056594" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLmLo-ioCaXu_oDd5IbobAdvnend4dHlitlBguJhcTwdwxMOXgURQV1Yh-w4lrpWGauGeJNvhwGFAuMbcPqFR7wx_0vN6PtHaMfXFIQQniRAIQD7lVlxuchmBuh9vgftYjL4R/s1600-h/IMG_2278.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaLmLo-ioCaXu_oDd5IbobAdvnend4dHlitlBguJhcTwdwxMOXgURQV1Yh-w4lrpWGauGeJNvhwGFAuMbcPqFR7wx_0vN6PtHaMfXFIQQniRAIQD7lVlxuchmBuh9vgftYjL4R/s320/IMG_2278.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339967152330185698" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLtHca_IzqPy_shIUfR9ouYNIGzuxhSIRPImYbnBqN_jGA_dbbF3JQI6O9fT9tEwWDS5_UQt-Azy-9epsCuShfVdFO1rmDmnHPyfDXIzr-4Zi3Dwm4cWkzZqlkgRSl70x1Teg/s1600-h/IMG_2337.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZLtHca_IzqPy_shIUfR9ouYNIGzuxhSIRPImYbnBqN_jGA_dbbF3JQI6O9fT9tEwWDS5_UQt-Azy-9epsCuShfVdFO1rmDmnHPyfDXIzr-4Zi3Dwm4cWkzZqlkgRSl70x1Teg/s320/IMG_2337.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339967139713798946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZVgkOOYQoeRuWlWKbUfsjf3tkFG0B2PBziQ31y8x7HFRdfkbXKQHsslGIRRdTKvFF-aueTayK9Ko1e0dEgeZkrKN3teFVYXFrGmyf4h73U8jZ3wIpP72decFJwInEfw6Gjy0/s1600-h/IMG_2262.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZVgkOOYQoeRuWlWKbUfsjf3tkFG0B2PBziQ31y8x7HFRdfkbXKQHsslGIRRdTKvFF-aueTayK9Ko1e0dEgeZkrKN3teFVYXFrGmyf4h73U8jZ3wIpP72decFJwInEfw6Gjy0/s320/IMG_2262.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339967156671188034" border="0" /></a>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-60719329295881662302009-03-30T14:49:00.010+02:002009-05-30T13:26:28.371+02:00Lazy days in the Khmer kingdom<div style="text-align: justify;">Cambodia, once the center of the mighty Angkor empire, now one of Asia's poorest and corrupt countries. Since the Khmer Rouge regime under Pol Pot came to power in 1975, Cambodia got stuck in two decades of civil war, which caused the death of millions of Khmer people and brought the country back to the stone age. And although Cambodia more or less recovered from the war, it remains one of the poorest countries in the region. The gap between rich and poor is enormous and still growing. Cambodia is such a friendly and beautiful country, but its history is really sad.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpKaTvD5t1cfqLLAIMbZVZ6urmxjU2Q_L1XEyFFm2ahKV37siis7Jj-3706Fzs7Bd_1DS3dRfGdnbgURJVISEQX3z5CRTmLG0qfRNMoBR0iHhLYtEp_T49c9ijSTNycCzkK5o/s1600-h/IMG_1755.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLpKaTvD5t1cfqLLAIMbZVZ6urmxjU2Q_L1XEyFFm2ahKV37siis7Jj-3706Fzs7Bd_1DS3dRfGdnbgURJVISEQX3z5CRTmLG0qfRNMoBR0iHhLYtEp_T49c9ijSTNycCzkK5o/s200/IMG_1755.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341569727762264994" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not all bad news though as, like most of Southeast Asia, Cambodia is developing. Being squeezed in between big guys Thailand and Vietnam and with a large tourist industry, Cambodia is growing quickly. I visited the country already in January 2007, when I stayed there for three weeks together with my father and brother. This time I went with Jurjen, traveling from Thailand on the way to Vietnam.<br /><br />March 03rd, Hat Lek, Thailand<br />Although crossing the border from Thailand to Cambodia was kind of a rainy affair, I still enjoyed the crossings as some guys brought beer for us. It is the first border I crossed while I was holding a cold beer in my hand, some people even offered marijuana; at an international border crossing (!). From that wacky border we shared a taxi with a British guy to Krong Koh Kong, which is the first town coming from Thailand.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nxjD7epGGl8B-AjgTgWnTc6fF3tTSZdKeXVQplpbjCxDGPno4O75Bzc-023ZDr01BnCdeRSb6C4VRwNj6N7BPfjamroK5YQUkGO5VmfFSoDqbjeMK2B5I8wUfORQZ1eTb27i/s1600-h/IMG_1679.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-nxjD7epGGl8B-AjgTgWnTc6fF3tTSZdKeXVQplpbjCxDGPno4O75Bzc-023ZDr01BnCdeRSb6C4VRwNj6N7BPfjamroK5YQUkGO5VmfFSoDqbjeMK2B5I8wUfORQZ1eTb27i/s200/IMG_1679.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341571785345279938" border="0" /></a><br />Krong Koh Kong really is a shabby border town. The guys from the guest house we stayed in tried to rip us off by asked double the price of a bus ticket and we got 5 offers to buy marijuana within the first hour. However we spent the night there and took a bus next day to Andoung Taek, a small town in the middle of nowhere. The driver almost missed our stop in that town, because it is so small and basically nobody gets off there. We did, got ourselves a refreshing coke and arranged two moto-drivers to take us even further off the track to a village named Chi Paht. The moto-ride through the jungle was quite nice and a small passenger ferry at the end of the road brought us to the village. The reason we went to Chi Paht is the community based eco-tourism opportunities that are offered. The village has a small eco-tourism office and arranges home stays in the village. The accommodation is pretty basic, but still nice. As there is not much else to do except for the tours offered, we just walked a bit around the village and talked with a depressive Irish guy the first day. We went to sleep after a nice dinner and were accompanied by a huge gecko, who luckily ate most of the insects.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuyp16h5OqcOAd2rt7A3GNKw-0UQ7zMLaNhyvamdw-HxsCQ3ad-zVTemxDFOuhesWCnV1KhP-6Gh4tdBnDu80axZhp78-f1Y9Yr9b14PVDAKvTJhEHdZkDM8ICKwNxM3j2haEQ/s1600-h/IMG_1671.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuyp16h5OqcOAd2rt7A3GNKw-0UQ7zMLaNhyvamdw-HxsCQ3ad-zVTemxDFOuhesWCnV1KhP-6Gh4tdBnDu80axZhp78-f1Y9Yr9b14PVDAKvTJhEHdZkDM8ICKwNxM3j2haEQ/s200/IMG_1671.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341569719726213890" border="0" /></a><br />Next day we made a 42 kilometer mountain-bike tour through the jungle. We arranged a local guide at the tourist office and set of for some waterfalls and a cave. Especially the waterfalls were beautiful and going downhill on a mountain-bike through the jungle has been a great experience. We swam in the waterfall, climbed the cave and cycled back to Chi Paht before the rain started. The day after we went back to Andoung Taek and tried to get out of the town. This turned out to be difficult as there were no buses leaving Andoung Taek, which meant we had to hitchhike. Hitchhiking was really easy though and a friendly guy in a nicely air-conditioned SUV brought us to Cambodia's premier beachtown Sihanoukville.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZh_SPgchomZj5XTTZdka_BTso74v5FHnvTw-3WDVo-Du6F4Cn-GaOYV_YHNCRpp0pXyYJ8eqrQGv8Lg5X-lk1772DjtrvLP-K27Ke7ORGM3PXtNybb_YL5Un-Mx8wKUTaO5Be/s1600-h/IMG_2139.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZh_SPgchomZj5XTTZdka_BTso74v5FHnvTw-3WDVo-Du6F4Cn-GaOYV_YHNCRpp0pXyYJ8eqrQGv8Lg5X-lk1772DjtrvLP-K27Ke7ORGM3PXtNybb_YL5Un-Mx8wKUTaO5Be/s200/IMG_2139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341571796124486066" border="0" /></a><br />I didn't like Sihanoukville that much actually, it really is like the Costa del Cambodia; the city is very touristic and full of bars, prostitutes, western style restaurants and resorts. Totally the opposite of Chi Paht. We did stay there for a few days and went on to much nicer Kampot, a smaller city also on the south coast. We found a good Danish/British owned guesthouse with amazing food (the owner used to be a chef-cook back in England) and friendly travelers who joined us for some beer that night.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP7tBPyIpN2Efvy8ji4Xbezl1PELzkh-rcU0FIB2ZuFI80_fVYqLGcxonjE_EGGaD1FIeMrgUZLXwGta-l-ZRgX6WzNg4CGY2YHROkB2PeDaNQ-rts6WQylYM1tER6tqz5RcU/s1600-h/IMG_1694.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUP7tBPyIpN2Efvy8ji4Xbezl1PELzkh-rcU0FIB2ZuFI80_fVYqLGcxonjE_EGGaD1FIeMrgUZLXwGta-l-ZRgX6WzNg4CGY2YHROkB2PeDaNQ-rts6WQylYM1tER6tqz5RcU/s200/IMG_1694.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341569724064392866" border="0" /></a><br />The first full day in Kampot, we rented small 125cc motorbikes and started driving around the city. For Jurjen, it was his first time driving something else than a car or bicycle and he was so unfortunate to break his foot when it slipped off the bike. The accident happened on a road which was under construction, the road basically was a dirt track full of trucks. In a reflex to brake for a strangely moving truck, he hit my bike and stepped wrongly on his foot, which caused three fractures. The clinic where they casted the foot was quite nice though and the guest house we stayed wasn't a bad place to get stuck for a while.<br />Totally we stayed 10 more days in Kampot, where we couldn't do much because Jurjen could barely walk. So we were just chilling out, eating amazing burritos, playing backgammon, matching movies and talking to fellow travelers. We met a Dutch guy, Misha, who joined us for some beer several nights and a few French people. In order to make our stay in Kampot a bit more productive, we joined a boat trip with a Belgian guy who lives in Kampot, he called his service: 'Bootje varen Bart'. Together with Misha, an Italian and a Canadian we floated along the waterways around Kampot, stopping several times for a swim. A really nice day, since we could enjoy the scenery without walking.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18h5NHP06tEvUSy20i4JU34kvXLZhYMEHm8nLytp8K-_tPXtANa2k_IWSa5qE8hU_4-_y51i2DE1wyrzGY1rzX_LsPm2jx9rWllH7ny-5MrzzS9yntAhdSaPkPsbA3QAHFfDi/s1600-h/IMG_2073.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi18h5NHP06tEvUSy20i4JU34kvXLZhYMEHm8nLytp8K-_tPXtANa2k_IWSa5qE8hU_4-_y51i2DE1wyrzGY1rzX_LsPm2jx9rWllH7ny-5MrzzS9yntAhdSaPkPsbA3QAHFfDi/s200/IMG_2073.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341569736867784690" border="0" /></a><br />After 10 days of relaxing in Kampot, it was time to move on to Cambodia's capital. A three hour bus ride brought us to Phnom Penh and a tuk-tuk to the backpacker area at Boung Kak lake. This 'lakeside' area of Phnom Penh is the cheapest area to stay, which rock-bottom guest houses. The atmosphere is really nice though and the sunset over the lake worth seeing. Jurjen got himself some crutches, to make walking a bit easier (although it still cost him lots of energy). The following days we continued doing what we did in Kampot: not much. We were hanging around the lakeside area, watching lots of movies, drinking some beers and socializing with other travelers. We did make a few trips by tuk-tuk around the city. We visited the impressive Killing Fields, which used to be an extermination camp during the Khmer Rouge period. It is such a depressive place, very similar to the Nazi camp in Auschwitch. We also went to the Toul Sleng museum, which served as torture prison in the times of the Khmer Rouge regime. This museum even impressed us more than the Killing Fields, as it is full of photos of all the people who lost their lives there. Like I mentioned before, the country has such a sad history.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-QOEvbO9mHXZpKDE6dkamtkPpUS7Dkdn2KL-7EmKrhy70nwc2KKjfKiMqIFeVHNAuFYO7CA0cxJF211qinBOZ47BnpfbI6NjB7pKvwy23GDhOJj1cCq4QT_clHBxDGzRa5Tj/s1600-h/IMG_1959.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD-QOEvbO9mHXZpKDE6dkamtkPpUS7Dkdn2KL-7EmKrhy70nwc2KKjfKiMqIFeVHNAuFYO7CA0cxJF211qinBOZ47BnpfbI6NjB7pKvwy23GDhOJj1cCq4QT_clHBxDGzRa5Tj/s200/IMG_1959.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341571787708589666" border="0" /></a><br />The following days we made some more tuk-tuk trips around Phnom Penh, visiting the Independence monument, driving past the Royal Palace and the Mekong river. From our tuk-tuk we witnessed the massive gap between rich and poor. The city is really dirty, like there is garbage all over the place and from our tuk-tuk we saw lots of beggars, prostitutes, disabled and gangs of children. On the other hand, there are the few who have the money and drive around in large SUVs. Furthermore, the city has been more and more controlled by international corporations. Even the Killing Fields, where Cambodia's national history is displayed, are now managed by a Japanese company.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx0_7q7bS4jGGiu-m1GsKI4rn35tYtehMrg1Atisiry83x5HdRYinqwcULL2RWatrTNi_JtsMz0P8ZU-yDEaZyG_jTasRzYICGdrgY4c-pPIEEEhZ0w_8UPRFF8be8wjtCOomJ/s1600-h/IMG_2203.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx0_7q7bS4jGGiu-m1GsKI4rn35tYtehMrg1Atisiry83x5HdRYinqwcULL2RWatrTNi_JtsMz0P8ZU-yDEaZyG_jTasRzYICGdrgY4c-pPIEEEhZ0w_8UPRFF8be8wjtCOomJ/s200/IMG_2203.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341569741224604082" border="0" /></a><br />So after spending too much time in Phnom Penh, we took a bus to Siem Reap in order to visit Cambodia's pride: the temples of Angkor. As I have been to Cambodia and Angkor already, I wasn't really interested to see the temples again, but I went with Jurjen anyway. We stayed a few days in Siem Reap, which is the town next to Angkor and we made a day-trip to the temples. We saw the main temples at Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Bayon and Ta Prohm. And we visited a few minor temples on the way. Still I enjoyed walking around the beautiful constructions as the incredible architecture of the 12th century really blows you away. One of the temples, Ta Prohm, is almost completely overgrown by the jungle and is nicknamed the 'Tomb raider temple', because of the movie which has been filmed there. The main temple of Angkor Wat is known as the world's largest religious building (it used to be a Hindu temple back in the days it was built). And yet another main temple, Bayon, is famous for all the faces carved out and perhaps is the most beautiful structure.<br />After that few days in Siem Reap and Angkor, we took a bus back to Phnom Penh to stay for the night. Next day we continued eastwards to Bavet, which is the border town with Vietnam. In total, we stayed a month in Cambodia, ready to do some serious backpacking again in Vietnam. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiiaKKw0DwfOe8UHRNKRquzH3-6quLaBUijPIfEh1CSuhHgm0-yN11Sd_8R0R_CWggw2YrGPmCw69vOtVc8HYCrO-xmDzJWihkuZh0CZwjYsOlACUs-cYnZdGFS7ud0Q5EMgzp/s1600-h/IMG_2330.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiiaKKw0DwfOe8UHRNKRquzH3-6quLaBUijPIfEh1CSuhHgm0-yN11Sd_8R0R_CWggw2YrGPmCw69vOtVc8HYCrO-xmDzJWihkuZh0CZwjYsOlACUs-cYnZdGFS7ud0Q5EMgzp/s200/IMG_2330.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341571807527396354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCk6gc_LSi_l_7Gx8FkPR7YOPVtKNWoYKm1eQqV_dFn8GlhlTIdi-Q63POUeuMY0Fvh4Pky9k0yNSsGgKaQw2Qxvcy-TYTlQW0wTXD-aEGA_6FpsQ2MNQCxgxwbUMsNFXz3Lfd/s1600-h/IMG_2239.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCk6gc_LSi_l_7Gx8FkPR7YOPVtKNWoYKm1eQqV_dFn8GlhlTIdi-Q63POUeuMY0Fvh4Pky9k0yNSsGgKaQw2Qxvcy-TYTlQW0wTXD-aEGA_6FpsQ2MNQCxgxwbUMsNFXz3Lfd/s200/IMG_2239.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341571806792742578" border="0" /></a></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-36573231033305585932009-02-28T15:54:00.000+01:002009-05-23T10:43:51.904+02:00More pictures of Thailand<strong>Bangkok<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338508438216953234" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Vz0CneR5q9N1iEAHnHmHJqMZCk6JLjFg69YQAyrpuXw9iRvQVQDBMCqEGTQq-nVHk2acOPEIyazt1VmfITNLLQVZiolQ0m7nlomy04bMytRWH3q-x_tN7sr1nlUJbLkLoKWc/s320/IMG_1438.JPG" border="0" /></strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338508442310074130" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrGZU9dLxnNjT8L4m-WVEOUrKyBdhx85xQZuUOTs-RymiqVD0McKr-3KGvc0CK6m1XiJVmiamesIH3vHyJcrwbsmxeS3lvvnd6cQpNEsMuMW9bMstmWRrRV4bWicvlBVC4REHo/s320/IMG_1447.JPG" border="0" /><strong>Ko Samet<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338508441461618066" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE8Fz9ZTxc4O2LPfGshVdM8QWtWb2XQee9rHrHrpAloJRQMISO2Nw0Dn5GoBdtugt4CwYq6AyW2JoA0LGGV5fVKBWAkpbsLNeGjGx72of2TnHumlI0YD-m46lmhrl4_WRsk_oV/s320/IMG_1454.JPG" border="0" />Ayutthaya<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338509627494360162" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXCF2rujdDtomeb_qBx-lEBJ10QLRQ0Hi4bBdpTUPNTrK6m1N9TawOs1c0we_HZVSzcjB6cDK7i-Rk_tJtzJigXxr6eU9amHSLqI2iczkRoJqTPqq3mmiRRDmSazwnAPkqgXfd/s320/IMG_1520.JPG" border="0" /></strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338508455004131090" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMrRR16a2YGD0OFfCgitEUiO4e5kiwpTZSYrHxWMSubJG2pdS1obGP6gQzPZpEyq24VFq0G6MXN4mNyxOp_EDUBHZWUjYI6xv5LGn-JgfFj-GdEcSVkn4J9aAbRukX04nerU8Q/s320/IMG_1490.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338508449456749570" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jwH_ww5yw_W71w5ZsxAEGXc_fy8pt6przORahRXrH_7fftydy7HvuU61TgIv1Pktv8CJesxUXCce_vtYCv0Vl8t_WvJxcPvgwphmziN_CBv-Xo77oI70qfdyHl-hIKcg76vD/s320/IMG_1471.JPG" border="0" /><strong>Lopburi<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338509616598714178" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKvLKKS1ZberrIPPxd9k3Ev7u8k1LUdusaVlBEyFiExrNqVIxWNAGQSyl8E8Nnvsk9_bP3Ra6n8xJYu6yQr29XJHROXB7dcCFXf_xHxLSsJ3qFI7GozXb7TTgWDZ74WHBvifTj/s320/IMG_1544.JPG" border="0" /></strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338509622901907762" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYP36JUuMjL7kMyZEC_5RaSTF9irMD1VV5fu0oyGtu73C94ZkykMCyX12Ff8zlA42QB1wRcHrqJA3QiOPTOxshyZiEhXZvIlHqoaOjSZaSPc03lMEYxvvth-HyOqtFoNVJIOvq/s320/IMG_1541.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338509611877204194" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUwcfsRvJ-AzvFBw39miTx2tgsmy9CtSKC56BlC0mAyUulLLEaq8pty7stdfVxc-1dMmEdfiEiiL-kMa0-oeM6mJk5HfiutQhOoMEnCBqVlQutcRipq6FOqyUxgUpXjHsYdE0i/s320/IMG_1554.JPG" border="0" /><strong>Ko Chang<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338509613813320098" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL9o_39cylusJ9Db6zDNMK9D5eKqMsP4QDijpPq2wk-vOq8Ghq9qxCTMQRCanR_Eya_3yNEOnIf6y3BBdCtQVQxKI_HC4oJkUzzX4K4InojDvgifRf6YqYWJCmr9iUPP1IwnGL/s320/IMG_1663.JPG" border="0" /></strong>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-57307946140355388082009-02-28T14:50:00.020+01:002009-05-23T10:46:22.164+02:00Ancient cities, wild monkeys, racing tuk-tuks and fruitshakes<div style="text-align: justify;">Flying from Yangon to Bangkok is like traveling to the future. Despite the cultural difference, Myanmar is like what Thailand used to be say, 40 years ago. In the 1960s, Myanmar and Thailand were pretty much at the same level of development. But today, while Myanmar's economy didn't really grow much since that time, Thailand is booming. And as old paint bladders from Yangon's colonial buildings, Bangkok is building the one skyscraper after the other. Thailand is one of the new 'Asian Tigers', along with China, Malaysia or Vietnam, and Bangkok is the sprawling center of it.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdQffhYwiFEpKetehj4IxOhJ3kaOQDCPAv1TsayKoQFsvcgPbC6yIp0vsx1c9tZcXNILmJfuGzbePj1xmyPoK1jnsSNoD4qmo_gQ85HYfu7m9Qc1kqPK8aC-t9WfEpnWjTRa3/s1600-h/IMG_1448.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRdQffhYwiFEpKetehj4IxOhJ3kaOQDCPAv1TsayKoQFsvcgPbC6yIp0vsx1c9tZcXNILmJfuGzbePj1xmyPoK1jnsSNoD4qmo_gQ85HYfu7m9Qc1kqPK8aC-t9WfEpnWjTRa3/s200/IMG_1448.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338873222013852530" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Although to me it seems very interesting to visit quickly developing countries, I never really felt attracted to Thailand as a traveling destination. This is mostly caused by the exploding tourist industry of Thailand; there are simply so much tourists that a lot of Thai places don't even feel Asian anymore. Perhaps I exaggerate a bit, but when I travel I try to experience a different culture and therefore the massive numbers of western tourists scare me away. However, this time, I actually was in the mood of some easy traveling and time to relax. And if you're looking for this, Thailand is great and besides, it <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>a very beautiful country with lots of friendly folks.<br /><br />So I flew to Bangkok, the 'City of Angels' as it is nicknamed. I stayed in the famous Khao San Road area, which is the backpacker area of the city. The streets around Khao San Road and the KSR itself are like one large funfair. Every centimeter of the area caters to foreign tourists, with restaurants, guesthouses, souvenir shops and everything else a foreign tourist might possibly need to buy. I've probably seen more western tourists than Thai in this area, but it simply is the cheapest and easiest place to stay in Bangkok.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEETLOJYKIBii_OsQyUfNKNYFM4pUrZlHSlx4U8dgjDtc8MffvFDZgoG98X64kdSE_L6SikZlDm-lYqHJZTseaExZCXKAt3qYlnE3RKVyQSxbqi-RaTe7wfXPTklS4kNaoWfC/s1600-h/IMG_1579.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEETLOJYKIBii_OsQyUfNKNYFM4pUrZlHSlx4U8dgjDtc8MffvFDZgoG98X64kdSE_L6SikZlDm-lYqHJZTseaExZCXKAt3qYlnE3RKVyQSxbqi-RaTe7wfXPTklS4kNaoWfC/s200/IMG_1579.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338871623652373042" border="0" /></a><br />My first week in Bangkok, I haven't done much really. I had to get a new passport, as the old one didn't had a single empty page left. So a made a visit to the Dutch embassy and I arranged a few other things. Besides that, I enjoyed some bars and terraces along Khao San Road with a few British guys and a German photographer I met in Myanmar. After that first week in Thailand, my friend Jurjen flew into Bangkok; we would travel together until the end of June. So I picked him up from the airport and we started to do some sightseeing the next days. We went for a long stroll in Bangkok's bustling China town, made a nice boat trip on the Chao Praya river and visited a few temples.<br />Although Bangkok has some nice sights, the city itself is rather dirty. Especially the air pollution in the Thai capital is really bad. I never felt pollution as much as in Bangkok, it is worse than all the Chinese metropolises I have been to. In order to escape the pollution for a few days, Jurjen and I went to an holiday island not far from the capital. We took a bus to the provincial town Rayong and hopped on a pick-up to the ferry port in Ban Phe, from where we took a ferry to Ko Samet island. We chose Ko Samet, because it is the closest bounty-style island from the capital and it is not as touristy as the islands in the south.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztyFtDAex7JfsSgdG0wOK4wY3oDhm4wHEgumJBJRH6oOj-G1kHDt6i9br9LHUwfp0CmARDFRGnJrBGQvFkRDQskVVn6xULTzlSwJVWtsqxKdadO6Ujc5ja-5OkmeENmclh0zS/s1600-h/IMG_1460.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhztyFtDAex7JfsSgdG0wOK4wY3oDhm4wHEgumJBJRH6oOj-G1kHDt6i9br9LHUwfp0CmARDFRGnJrBGQvFkRDQskVVn6xULTzlSwJVWtsqxKdadO6Ujc5ja-5OkmeENmclh0zS/s200/IMG_1460.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338873227362038258" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We stayed in the cheapest guesthouse we found, which is located next to Ao Phai beach. The following days we just hang a bit around, drunk numerous fruit shakes (banana-pineapple shake is my favorite) and swam in the Gulf of Thailand. The good thing about Ko Samet is, that you can hike from one beach to another. Each beach has bit of a different atmosphere and different types of people, which makes the tiny island actually quite diverse. And of course, the white sand beaches and beautiful blue ocean provided a good break from busy Bangkok. Furthermore the island provided a good setting to chat up with my friend Jurjen, who I haven't seen for the past half year.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5IWJq-g6qKWRzCE3CupktqhwNXtkEKZoV-U1Y-YBt6fiHPwVFHX62gTO9mBJn1aOKAZbca4rt5GUaOTT9HQQfSSkVkQXGNi_yh0eYOJqjuR4CdqWAxeojVNzqm7_D-zNmSXx/s1600-h/IMG_1465.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij5IWJq-g6qKWRzCE3CupktqhwNXtkEKZoV-U1Y-YBt6fiHPwVFHX62gTO9mBJn1aOKAZbca4rt5GUaOTT9HQQfSSkVkQXGNi_yh0eYOJqjuR4CdqWAxeojVNzqm7_D-zNmSXx/s200/IMG_1465.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338873230639832482" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">From Ko Samet we bussed back to Thailand's capital city, where we spent the night. Next day we moved north to the historical city of Ayutthaya. This city used to be one of the ancient capitals of Siam (former name of Thailand) and is absolutely filled with ruins and temples. However, we couldn't see the glory of the city straight away, because the owner of our guesthouse kept us busy for the whole evening. So what is this guesthouse? Well, it is called Mint guesthouse and the owner is nicknamed Mr. Toy. We found the place, because it is just next to the train station and the guy approached us when we passed. The guy who runs it is named Mr. Toy, because he keeps you busy with all kinds of magic tricks, mind puzzles and anecdotes. And with a room for just one US dollar, it probably is the best guesthouse I stayed in Southeast Asia. So that evening we were playing like circus artists and drunk a few cold Chang beers with Toy. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnSEmSyksCnR2RBDLo1RWIotxHcrt_vhzI0vJqRIm1W7Yv40QhukqpOO_YWA8ZvLKCE5YE0KcmTQgXA2YabCxnZDDKk0_q0dqNiv3Qf6m-ekMRccefEWlmNpZns0UAilpj7BjA/s1600-h/IMG_1494.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnSEmSyksCnR2RBDLo1RWIotxHcrt_vhzI0vJqRIm1W7Yv40QhukqpOO_YWA8ZvLKCE5YE0KcmTQgXA2YabCxnZDDKk0_q0dqNiv3Qf6m-ekMRccefEWlmNpZns0UAilpj7BjA/s200/IMG_1494.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338871628487035250" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next day we rented bicycles and just cycled around the beautiful, but boiling hot city. We stopped a few times at some stunning ruins and temples, before recovering from the heath with a nice and cold fruit shake. Despite the nice atmosphere and the amazing guesthouse, the thing that really annoyed me in Ayutthaya are the swarms of stray dogs, which can be very aggressive sometime. The Buddhist Thai don't like to kill the dogs, because the killing of an animal conflicts with Buddhist thought. So the dogs can stay in the city and made cycling a bit more challenging for us, luckily we weren't bitten. Less luckily was my flat tire, which we got fixed at a small shop for just 40 baht (0.85 euro). It took them less than 30 minutes to repair the bike. To compare, if you bring a bike with a flat tire to a bicycle shop in the Netherlands, you can expect to pay at least 20 euro and wait for your bike for at least 3 days. In Europe we call it efficiency.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjc49iDqD4I3MeZP8ZT95VUbdUJ6-vfpXiq6LnXXlD3-eayt1oqknt5mNW0EWUUK5AQtzIIAh2qk6_H210cEiruhgoj9PQAcTGMtOASpUYkBfxv02vkBj-rm-RXUDKR2reTrT/s1600-h/IMG_1534.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjc49iDqD4I3MeZP8ZT95VUbdUJ6-vfpXiq6LnXXlD3-eayt1oqknt5mNW0EWUUK5AQtzIIAh2qk6_H210cEiruhgoj9PQAcTGMtOASpUYkBfxv02vkBj-rm-RXUDKR2reTrT/s200/IMG_1534.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338871618400401202" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With the bike repaired and a rewarding beer with Mr Toy in the evening we went to sleep and prepared us for a day trip to Lopburi. We took a morning train and spent the afternoon in even hotter Lopburi. That day really was so boiling hot that it was almost impossible to walk anywhere out of the air-conditioned 7-Eleven. Lopburi is another ancient Thai city and has some nice ruins as well. We visited some of them and went into a history museum until the weather cooled down a bit. Afterwards we went to yet another temple, which is famous for its wild monkeys hanging around there. Similar like stray dogs in Ayutthaya, the monkeys in Lopburi are protected by the Buddhist Thai and can walk pretty freely around the city. Shop owners around the monkey sites all carry small catapults in order to keep the animals away from their stores. We made a few pictures of the apes and took a train back to Ayutthaya for dinner.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyukCyamkmP0sLaDUllXm116okPL5gxhZwk1EjJVJe7wyp9n4Tw0WvW5J2WuLB-nZQo_bsav3wjoN8DLtlZc7k5zfMkxlf3HJdO2dwzM_EKQwlSJuCKfxTs9ErrvKWmPS5656z/s1600-h/IMG_1550.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyukCyamkmP0sLaDUllXm116okPL5gxhZwk1EjJVJe7wyp9n4Tw0WvW5J2WuLB-nZQo_bsav3wjoN8DLtlZc7k5zfMkxlf3HJdO2dwzM_EKQwlSJuCKfxTs9ErrvKWmPS5656z/s200/IMG_1550.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338873234563911378" border="0" /></a> At 1 am that night we took another train back to Bangkok and hopped on a tuk-tuk who brought us to a guesthouse at 3. That tuk-tuk ride was really crazy, our totally maniac driver had its foot full on the gas pedal all journey. He also really enjoyed ignoring red traffic lights and overtaking. I was glad to arrive safely so I could pick up my new flashy passport at the Dutch embassy next day. While doing the Thai immigration stuff later on (which is necessary if you change your passport), I met a Russian guy Igor at the office. As his English wasn't that good, I helped him a bit arranging his stuff. He invited me for a beer and a boat trip on Chao Praya river afterwards. Together with Jurjen we walked a bit around the Royal palace area.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Oqp5l5emOxSHIAM1nT5lvpNonV28T9hw5TFR1XEmtKJCC-SdtMdw4D4YoUFLH1_EpfWlUdV-6oPfnlCI6BXaxYMA3yjSKZwblw0DU9U824rx7Eh5N-MD_VMv_z5zLEpodrkb/s1600-h/IMG_1557.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Oqp5l5emOxSHIAM1nT5lvpNonV28T9hw5TFR1XEmtKJCC-SdtMdw4D4YoUFLH1_EpfWlUdV-6oPfnlCI6BXaxYMA3yjSKZwblw0DU9U824rx7Eh5N-MD_VMv_z5zLEpodrkb/s200/IMG_1557.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338871614468745778" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The day after we moved on eastwards, to the provincial town of Trat. We spent the night in Trat and caught a pick-up to a small ferry village next morning. A short ferry ride brought us to Ko Chang, which is quite a large island in the east of Thailand, famous for its tropical rain forest covering most of the island. A pick-up drove us along the small snaking road to the southern side of Ko Chang, which is the backpacker area. We stayed in a German owned guesthouse on Lonely Beach, which was a really nice place. The beach however was disappointing, because it is quite narrow and was full of garbage. Also the weather wasn't that good, cloudy and rainy most of the days, so we couldn't really enjoy Ko Chang's beaches. We did make a nice but tiring walk to a village named Ban Bang Bao, from where we had a nice view over the south side of the island.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6msxJJQOrOA0deNiH1cbcRgmuFf2DiFZcyllZeSjRmiCZOOg7feZwaAAJJCC1RYjc-KH3SYnb-6L45RF63yGf_nqJ1T1QVwE40SLsBba-XPUwRbHRE82xBEnOxwtDiJ81yXq/s1600-h/IMG_1601.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT6msxJJQOrOA0deNiH1cbcRgmuFf2DiFZcyllZeSjRmiCZOOg7feZwaAAJJCC1RYjc-KH3SYnb-6L45RF63yGf_nqJ1T1QVwE40SLsBba-XPUwRbHRE82xBEnOxwtDiJ81yXq/s200/IMG_1601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338873239153950082" border="0" /></a><br />A few lazy days later, we took a ferry back to the mainland and arranged a pick-up to Hat Lek, which is the southernmost border with Cambodia. Just a few minutes before we arrived at the border, the sky opened and it started to rain very heavily. In the heavy rain we got our Thai exit stamps and walked over to the Kingdom of Cambodia.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdxG9CNlN3o7mAjO07jab755vTOJV5y1MWf2RKB6f9k3VrW0tV8ICUEU8VchSw1SN4zHasIErpOssn_22KbS8REyPLrG3538BdIYGOPpBXwGPDJc0ZhrMxw3GOS5sFktx5f2_W/s1600-h/IMG_1657.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdxG9CNlN3o7mAjO07jab755vTOJV5y1MWf2RKB6f9k3VrW0tV8ICUEU8VchSw1SN4zHasIErpOssn_22KbS8REyPLrG3538BdIYGOPpBXwGPDJc0ZhrMxw3GOS5sFktx5f2_W/s200/IMG_1657.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338871608691265490" border="0" /></a></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-42732685032493312872009-02-13T16:49:00.010+01:002009-08-18T17:22:42.403+02:00Beautiful Myanmar part 4<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pyin U Lwin</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqH1WVnJELS9UxvLM6QPOWAjg8V9huc79ZSxU_fYkKXSw6zmsMiXATZRRnbyWnVW7YicMa_EbtjvhCVCoDksXs4CGNAw_6Vr-dAroAsMW_RjQCZ6umrt2PMet7Gj2SE52lFuU/s1600-h/Myanmar+1631.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqH1WVnJELS9UxvLM6QPOWAjg8V9huc79ZSxU_fYkKXSw6zmsMiXATZRRnbyWnVW7YicMa_EbtjvhCVCoDksXs4CGNAw_6Vr-dAroAsMW_RjQCZ6umrt2PMet7Gj2SE52lFuU/s320/Myanmar+1631.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371323298935958274" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">On the train to Hsipaw</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPerJhAj2W3PMTUE-wYVNrZPA6yGP5LhasrXgcn0rsF1SRJzNfsbpHNqItUdvKS4X1ZarR8yMO7dVv24y9xWfDE9kSAbQDFaW1K4OY9-4WpfdcP240feDienQVJsD_2JIK9EK/s1600-h/Myanmar+1641.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnPerJhAj2W3PMTUE-wYVNrZPA6yGP5LhasrXgcn0rsF1SRJzNfsbpHNqItUdvKS4X1ZarR8yMO7dVv24y9xWfDE9kSAbQDFaW1K4OY9-4WpfdcP240feDienQVJsD_2JIK9EK/s320/Myanmar+1641.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371322908397498898" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Road to Namhsan</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgzImJHZ9E5trUX4pONA6tgYC7SSEH6AE0lCA3WV1Ca70ZvJD6YKDCdXKMgkquyAv1FNHcT0yqI7trlfeiWzFgyRRIi_tZ2-XGxYba28_E4d2zqhu1sSk18ndhNK2MsoMoxlLH/s1600-h/Myanmar+1648.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgzImJHZ9E5trUX4pONA6tgYC7SSEH6AE0lCA3WV1Ca70ZvJD6YKDCdXKMgkquyAv1FNHcT0yqI7trlfeiWzFgyRRIi_tZ2-XGxYba28_E4d2zqhu1sSk18ndhNK2MsoMoxlLH/s320/Myanmar+1648.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371322521687743170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZIfOgp5bYgPC4SgUCYBT97qcNaGpH513jdCHNZRapDf8YbW80voVFPsIYypBiurltkSvVeWqJ8ZNH9v4jWnFoMf3sT_22j89-6zyYJnWBZOf_7Aim-WEW8ZV0M63e8B1E3YI/s1600-h/Myanmar+1661.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrZIfOgp5bYgPC4SgUCYBT97qcNaGpH513jdCHNZRapDf8YbW80voVFPsIYypBiurltkSvVeWqJ8ZNH9v4jWnFoMf3sT_22j89-6zyYJnWBZOf_7Aim-WEW8ZV0M63e8B1E3YI/s320/Myanmar+1661.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371321934126693842" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Monastery</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG_gqDVA06fQlHhJ7yzY6IDfhQtVzQ1rhxgsDvpNV_1KO2ln2v4KF0f1AGSWBAggniRA33Xpx2s32w_hYFgvogwqTfoW3-9wX1I569NPQyRkJeuWy7MeJnPMvG22DC9QaqDz7/s1600-h/Myanmar+1713.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqG_gqDVA06fQlHhJ7yzY6IDfhQtVzQ1rhxgsDvpNV_1KO2ln2v4KF0f1AGSWBAggniRA33Xpx2s32w_hYFgvogwqTfoW3-9wX1I569NPQyRkJeuWy7MeJnPMvG22DC9QaqDz7/s320/Myanmar+1713.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371321491243785186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGqCoInmRWFcF_2ryL6NsAFEq5jP7jU9KUw0dVSqk32_9Hu-wnbIYzsfdmil1YnWx3PGfbVpYUhvvW-D_REGq_NRA2cOxB0oGHWfL1jzw6ki2zoMB5ZpgS4-p4FTdFLiN3ymb/s1600-h/Myanmar+1720.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGqCoInmRWFcF_2ryL6NsAFEq5jP7jU9KUw0dVSqk32_9Hu-wnbIYzsfdmil1YnWx3PGfbVpYUhvvW-D_REGq_NRA2cOxB0oGHWfL1jzw6ki2zoMB5ZpgS4-p4FTdFLiN3ymb/s320/Myanmar+1720.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371320912008278994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Namhsan</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV2aioszPLwzXrHQNt8GDGIc6u-nd94K6DGpnnjrkfbfzDFeeJ6Vwbbtcw1CGV0kDVAbpdNGL27Jzm6PD7oBINjX_COWUTSjpU-MuYDV73P2W1D1wbRz19wrjwtNFGEhA8k4r/s1600-h/Myanmar+1736.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV2aioszPLwzXrHQNt8GDGIc6u-nd94K6DGpnnjrkfbfzDFeeJ6Vwbbtcw1CGV0kDVAbpdNGL27Jzm6PD7oBINjX_COWUTSjpU-MuYDV73P2W1D1wbRz19wrjwtNFGEhA8k4r/s320/Myanmar+1736.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371320903066140402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKIvFeWx70qQytMo-Z2SJt9a_9ixwuUpZ9l8hXFDOigX0zJL98wLY6bHlXkuBeADIJ9rnfVD2-PNrr1WFNJFivVV12PIyZM0l2J52uMxZKo2YdibGn3w53NgmjXwRzL2m91T4/s1600-h/Myanmar+1741.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKIvFeWx70qQytMo-Z2SJt9a_9ixwuUpZ9l8hXFDOigX0zJL98wLY6bHlXkuBeADIJ9rnfVD2-PNrr1WFNJFivVV12PIyZM0l2J52uMxZKo2YdibGn3w53NgmjXwRzL2m91T4/s320/Myanmar+1741.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371320894198601154" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFWR9InkwX8pPOVGjFrlqJ4G_zT6J7VYNxuyh0EDrQIkIO6cZVGWcbSv7pdvgVJduvGFHxS9jKftZiQTvP_B2lN2M-WRvjeUTH8782O8lWA8LuHRBOPAfMS_f09occfxsBr-N/s1600-h/Myanmar+1763.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQFWR9InkwX8pPOVGjFrlqJ4G_zT6J7VYNxuyh0EDrQIkIO6cZVGWcbSv7pdvgVJduvGFHxS9jKftZiQTvP_B2lN2M-WRvjeUTH8782O8lWA8LuHRBOPAfMS_f09occfxsBr-N/s320/Myanmar+1763.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371320886756809282" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">The 'jungle road' </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWl-J_D1Tz9UMz67MPJ3KAIHBdwFeMyGmJSbpM_YoPd_8yqvtG96RSLOHpYuAyEVVY7auQGyJy9WhTbS91d0qOCJez33Q-80oevd4WNJvFk_eE2d7wFCuSUsKhucEqk2x33bq/s1600-h/Myanmar+1794.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWWl-J_D1Tz9UMz67MPJ3KAIHBdwFeMyGmJSbpM_YoPd_8yqvtG96RSLOHpYuAyEVVY7auQGyJy9WhTbS91d0qOCJez33Q-80oevd4WNJvFk_eE2d7wFCuSUsKhucEqk2x33bq/s320/Myanmar+1794.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371320880112611010" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pHxk9yN6opK87a0AQA362UtCUBMpvGFUI5gs27_BhB9fSSjk1zA5zYCVvluhHZFNQes0oXbBuGcaGyJtXgM2CvDor1jQYzloMdgHeYlkn2ixuS9hnfxucZucWe6kw32_hr-j/s1600-h/Myanmar+1806.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2pHxk9yN6opK87a0AQA362UtCUBMpvGFUI5gs27_BhB9fSSjk1zA5zYCVvluhHZFNQes0oXbBuGcaGyJtXgM2CvDor1jQYzloMdgHeYlkn2ixuS9hnfxucZucWe6kw32_hr-j/s320/Myanmar+1806.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371318434851841682" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pathein</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxoVMqapdTcx1wkFYcvGUjHBpEd6AUh2gw6lLh-u4kUzqd7UmBedYcXCSHzMnrwD_DHy8xwi-QRJnEbECU6IzOv0iB89QZsTv9740b8psAPYkBqzBIi1_5rmu5ZjQce5su8eO/s1600-h/Myanmar+1820.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSxoVMqapdTcx1wkFYcvGUjHBpEd6AUh2gw6lLh-u4kUzqd7UmBedYcXCSHzMnrwD_DHy8xwi-QRJnEbECU6IzOv0iB89QZsTv9740b8psAPYkBqzBIi1_5rmu5ZjQce5su8eO/s320/Myanmar+1820.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371318427090360914" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMnbIQwhsVv6g-vmWSlvC99i-6QzJZ2OSFYiuNkgx9eqnyeXRfg4gTpi2RU2J_ILobIK1NrMYdu11nJZvc2GxoJWvDUyTiIRbH7F_OIruMrY0QDVUMtwefiTZduwDtGcJlHcu/s1600-h/Myanmar+1833.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJMnbIQwhsVv6g-vmWSlvC99i-6QzJZ2OSFYiuNkgx9eqnyeXRfg4gTpi2RU2J_ILobIK1NrMYdu11nJZvc2GxoJWvDUyTiIRbH7F_OIruMrY0QDVUMtwefiTZduwDtGcJlHcu/s320/Myanmar+1833.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371318419238795922" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ngwe Saung beach</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEM33q7hEAl36fj2x4YJXrKJIn0dBJmIkUv3AwNm2VfJToml9NbHjNKjQb4ejB51rp1w_iAkw4gvdNPBLDkmAKDmwUW7HdUAvAImfRyyPmqBh1Rnn3e9LFeQ440nq3cQJ2kDs/s1600-h/Myanmar+1838.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUEM33q7hEAl36fj2x4YJXrKJIn0dBJmIkUv3AwNm2VfJToml9NbHjNKjQb4ejB51rp1w_iAkw4gvdNPBLDkmAKDmwUW7HdUAvAImfRyyPmqBh1Rnn3e9LFeQ440nq3cQJ2kDs/s320/Myanmar+1838.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371318409810244898" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBsT4I2sjEM7vbMsk8Vj5SreJoh-Eodq8kMJzI9Tsn1P7hLR2z4xzQy9bPwiKLPDiTzJ07hS9nty1RZu-l_t21z2fBm3JrBGF-Q5i_ncrjoIQLiYbRskRgRvCEvJlyvSQbVrd/s1600-h/Myanmar+1842.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwBsT4I2sjEM7vbMsk8Vj5SreJoh-Eodq8kMJzI9Tsn1P7hLR2z4xzQy9bPwiKLPDiTzJ07hS9nty1RZu-l_t21z2fBm3JrBGF-Q5i_ncrjoIQLiYbRskRgRvCEvJlyvSQbVrd/s320/Myanmar+1842.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371318402093857074" border="0" /></a>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-64808714606227189742009-02-06T16:20:00.005+01:002009-08-18T16:49:00.259+02:00Beautiful Myanmar part 3<span style="font-weight: bold;">Inle Lake, morning market</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuNBSk7yw6lFBx1iIy4qHJacykVRg6np82wx3CUn-v3UQZqWZrDex7IlclXNVXrj4YeFApnuZILW6I3icjLQ-gP8pfIMOJn8AyYEuAblGb5N9YgiItjnYmPys_3aNea21B1ue/s1600-h/Myanmar+1322.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRuNBSk7yw6lFBx1iIy4qHJacykVRg6np82wx3CUn-v3UQZqWZrDex7IlclXNVXrj4YeFApnuZILW6I3icjLQ-gP8pfIMOJn8AyYEuAblGb5N9YgiItjnYmPys_3aNea21B1ue/s320/Myanmar+1322.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371314065231508290" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZfqRNC8ZC0BmgqMhycVDuroIkAK9H1m_Vha9KKneMa0Py348Oi7xIksZ4b3TxVP6nnn3ARtbR6PnWmhlQ_V7I9NhfC3eR1h7GpWUCCdZrisgQKAECxf3ucqdGuaHkfoXg-Gz/s1600-h/Myanmar+1319.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiZfqRNC8ZC0BmgqMhycVDuroIkAK9H1m_Vha9KKneMa0Py348Oi7xIksZ4b3TxVP6nnn3ARtbR6PnWmhlQ_V7I9NhfC3eR1h7GpWUCCdZrisgQKAECxf3ucqdGuaHkfoXg-Gz/s320/Myanmar+1319.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371314077120717810" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Inle Lake</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGT6k8ns025c364SAerSK4KoaM-X7Nxb2didNmcgwglFQ64qU0k85gD0rxUOw4y-NCITc1Z-RKyXmtNhz4Zi3yGlBufxQSUKp5PIHdRoJFTHU-UFHOqYkjLCyfVVCIM6Nd_E-L/s1600-h/Myanmar+1343.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGT6k8ns025c364SAerSK4KoaM-X7Nxb2didNmcgwglFQ64qU0k85gD0rxUOw4y-NCITc1Z-RKyXmtNhz4Zi3yGlBufxQSUKp5PIHdRoJFTHU-UFHOqYkjLCyfVVCIM6Nd_E-L/s320/Myanmar+1343.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371314057471552066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hahC0-_-sxKxWyCq54YIGi-_iYGMVQC1BtF3TSTdCz-Tiaui9AGFwvGkW6f25L9BAYJrwN8rlvRcuumt_8J8PskOsojg-mAfPJrooNCzujgctB0bDHzuDaY6_2Yw-2k-dzNf/s1600-h/Myanmar+1463.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8hahC0-_-sxKxWyCq54YIGi-_iYGMVQC1BtF3TSTdCz-Tiaui9AGFwvGkW6f25L9BAYJrwN8rlvRcuumt_8J8PskOsojg-mAfPJrooNCzujgctB0bDHzuDaY6_2Yw-2k-dzNf/s320/Myanmar+1463.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371312449774786466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEgnjYWNww2Xs6iVBkzBiAfFUEHDLdQrH5r51v9B9CT_eGKpUctyUMPBc6Fc3Emj2oyThWkp3XsHrOEFxzV8IB_tZ0oMrn6902ZEha9xAYHKg7PbL-OMInhDRZJdOZEzjbVeP/s1600-h/Myanmar+1386.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEgnjYWNww2Xs6iVBkzBiAfFUEHDLdQrH5r51v9B9CT_eGKpUctyUMPBc6Fc3Emj2oyThWkp3XsHrOEFxzV8IB_tZ0oMrn6902ZEha9xAYHKg7PbL-OMInhDRZJdOZEzjbVeP/s320/Myanmar+1386.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371312456618508946" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1F6wEOhLER2hQ8B0k8D9ZDETLpuI2AvpJHDETgAi2NkfQZGl5jlZSilJ2B_TvSE7Y_VqEEUtg1KKmU1n3EI3CMsP5u4hrvAOg9FUCtD9aG1tUjNWPHoyM0taoIsZ0EHiCOgx/s1600-h/Myanmar+1371.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1F6wEOhLER2hQ8B0k8D9ZDETLpuI2AvpJHDETgAi2NkfQZGl5jlZSilJ2B_TvSE7Y_VqEEUtg1KKmU1n3EI3CMsP5u4hrvAOg9FUCtD9aG1tUjNWPHoyM0taoIsZ0EHiCOgx/s320/Myanmar+1371.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371314037617501794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Longneck women, Inle Lake</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_wlbyrLRXiNc6cKEUCqJEscbDbcGCHliAsoyMO3GVB-c8BaDZ90Kig9IViQJ1VFeVgTXlTLa4yRgbB47CB4x-4MbrL5hcbrEFZnPaxlTp-HXy7fEQelUO1ZE300dezISf_Pq/s1600-h/Myanmar+1354.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_wlbyrLRXiNc6cKEUCqJEscbDbcGCHliAsoyMO3GVB-c8BaDZ90Kig9IViQJ1VFeVgTXlTLa4yRgbB47CB4x-4MbrL5hcbrEFZnPaxlTp-HXy7fEQelUO1ZE300dezISf_Pq/s320/Myanmar+1354.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371314051920540162" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">'Jumping cat monastery', Inle Lake</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH41iewlUGoI06crengKfiQhyphenhyphen9FRuWJ7oxujMmkbNApbsByfokpLUmeKCE-EJKCk9isewRY8PZXBZqZal1lyBceWnMgR4Q7b3fZldS0MC_l3FW8pbzHfyx14QmJTrHAOIuTZuU/s1600-h/Myanmar+1490.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH41iewlUGoI06crengKfiQhyphenhyphen9FRuWJ7oxujMmkbNApbsByfokpLUmeKCE-EJKCk9isewRY8PZXBZqZal1lyBceWnMgR4Q7b3fZldS0MC_l3FW8pbzHfyx14QmJTrHAOIuTZuU/s320/Myanmar+1490.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371312434310500066" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Orphanage in Nyaung Shwe</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhyphenhyphenCEXUrSYEw85vKE6P9Y5cq9wxkSOqdX8e6vdgpKYox_fsqMSrHikvozngxctZNThgafLlKxd-sBjQxFuUQnSD28-3H4qSDtZ5GSF3J0mBbqWlKFoo-xmbipjzuVMDTDLeYA/s1600-h/Myanmar+1524.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGhyphenhyphenCEXUrSYEw85vKE6P9Y5cq9wxkSOqdX8e6vdgpKYox_fsqMSrHikvozngxctZNThgafLlKxd-sBjQxFuUQnSD28-3H4qSDtZ5GSF3J0mBbqWlKFoo-xmbipjzuVMDTDLeYA/s320/Myanmar+1524.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371312413279279026" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwBQCbZxwoKKOl-ztScy4GEM8MxTDkdRUqsQ1A5cWMfVRnJaM_opNIMYbbUjYaWF52ZCrkGiHLp5cvUr5Zp6tqZFGWQFBWQ65lmSUQWVej_hae5OkQdeDPqHuLikL6EEEeeCX/s1600-h/Myanmar+1509.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfwBQCbZxwoKKOl-ztScy4GEM8MxTDkdRUqsQ1A5cWMfVRnJaM_opNIMYbbUjYaWF52ZCrkGiHLp5cvUr5Zp6tqZFGWQFBWQ65lmSUQWVej_hae5OkQdeDPqHuLikL6EEEeeCX/s320/Myanmar+1509.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371312421665028114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXhyPwuPARu391BKHoRxDSACAoXkbXaaviwTAn3ICGEXLCr4kgNlIUCTYxsNTj__T3OcgMLIy4jeDt1vo_QLmw-LR5ED8qiqD6PTbPkiBWJ_FU-4pycsW88O5iZlmksXJMZW2b/s1600-h/Myanmar+1530.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy8PM6nmONPfGmXQ0FrvCDbAKZ9hcDwxua_HFPrD6ogFtd_FsUQ0Vqk3TRO0l1RmN7GeROtb_laFWTUwaRmZJUDMWwEsfFPBKY-aFt6GwUzUpH0qCx28GWDtTlgFj8m7y5bVoW/s320/Myanmar+1549.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371310244217191794" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mandalay</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVrhXsW4JkTjz2nP5ieycTRS147TP-rIsfxuz8DFyDSkdiTlbkV8-o1qkzqYbzfNppmRpc3_pSSr-Q4at-buca2gJR4kGBEaGGUcgozQpVdr1gu4p7PXAQS2Cyglvz7KV079I/s1600-h/Myanmar+1582.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRVrhXsW4JkTjz2nP5ieycTRS147TP-rIsfxuz8DFyDSkdiTlbkV8-o1qkzqYbzfNppmRpc3_pSSr-Q4at-buca2gJR4kGBEaGGUcgozQpVdr1gu4p7PXAQS2Cyglvz7KV079I/s320/Myanmar+1582.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371310234902550818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Inwa</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJuXQuXLm399Rhz13EdzAUoUJfWwq0CPMdFij7_6qhjxdptxhjqCPTx3lyd8Xnyu8c1ZD0MX9q20F4rh4OzZsfKdSpn_au0PKR8hgLQ3Ona1YE7jSDgoMD_n7wtZne6NuZxz_/s1600-h/Myanmar+1606.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwJuXQuXLm399Rhz13EdzAUoUJfWwq0CPMdFij7_6qhjxdptxhjqCPTx3lyd8Xnyu8c1ZD0MX9q20F4rh4OzZsfKdSpn_au0PKR8hgLQ3Ona1YE7jSDgoMD_n7wtZne6NuZxz_/s320/Myanmar+1606.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371310226302448690" border="0" /></a>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-52933457322718279822009-02-01T13:46:00.011+01:002009-05-23T05:56:32.220+02:00Beautiful Myanmar part 2<strong>Mandalay</strong> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333072527107293794" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPe-FNBTlLSzLK4cPpWAseK_1BIl7YYMUTOAZ1HdQDPhMcBUHzBWYAnbLZHo6nP0ICzAMj9vukg8_KuwkIh-QdUg4lZO4XEiYW-eJPH4sIykGyPlIw7H3SQ2b1uGflLQ8FwFXc/s320/IMG_0095.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333072522598536962" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisdn6HE-5g6S6ujXIz_WA323IKYzxQsSVSKZWjupAjzIhqHqpuyeh5LwDa7b0C9u18cDv2fRet-cQyUzrfzyrsC6IB1RRJ2wMIGy6ORvoS2r0oyvXxJClr9biG_0bvst0WIti3/s320/IMG_0565.JPG" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-2086164187656010792009-01-21T10:36:00.001+01:002009-05-23T05:56:51.699+02:00Beautiful Myanmar part 1<strong>Yangon<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333018619929948914" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmA02oaPCrOA_y4u_MCRT1diz16onC_qf6MGTtOKZ74wmgwgXYQzv61lF526kunOuVk7oONxmUdUzI2iK0qkH3eYnztBp2euEP2ucmMKvg9AmcDnaazlWPHZ3A2BgWV4W-pm4j/s320/IMG_9651.JPG" border="0" /></strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333020964231480082" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR6tVmuMEHdz9jkk-NrbwRjVpNvjejE6WPyzoYvlxM5djBUNWI-2BoDKYsHKQccigBhmA2mshqbnxIkE1-wJa0MCO6x-k8Ck6-n67pH_vMNHAAwSx8Vm1wW2a_1rhHbdsLRaWc/s320/IMG_0009.JPG" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-8313124485082472332009-01-11T11:30:00.013+01:002009-05-23T05:57:08.580+02:00More pictures of Eastern and Southern China<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hangzhou</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZiUAQhBu2ugvIuMmGuYwWudUWM-9JNYLDauKLb7BWaX7j18fFN1htR-KM7rWw7YpJI2hTsEEkhr43zchtMJFzaw1lARzuxLsFAGY_vn5katNNMu4mBlPBkZSavnoZzM4jiwt/s1600-h/Hangzhou.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisZiUAQhBu2ugvIuMmGuYwWudUWM-9JNYLDauKLb7BWaX7j18fFN1htR-KM7rWw7YpJI2hTsEEkhr43zchtMJFzaw1lARzuxLsFAGY_vn5katNNMu4mBlPBkZSavnoZzM4jiwt/s320/Hangzhou.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314126438841790434" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quanzhou</span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecpSF4a8DId35Hg7IaWBmAXSsxVbiOQHCUe0WHOj_zBG4vjRpvhskeK8jAhBy8fKRJZV9cfUJ7pukSdNufViwmS-2TlRIAbHMPQu_2i4ui1yxSgiIGZXL1qmCfGwNqyHQxJ4w/s1600-h/Quanzhou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjecpSF4a8DId35Hg7IaWBmAXSsxVbiOQHCUe0WHOj_zBG4vjRpvhskeK8jAhBy8fKRJZV9cfUJ7pukSdNufViwmS-2TlRIAbHMPQu_2i4ui1yxSgiIGZXL1qmCfGwNqyHQxJ4w/s320/Quanzhou.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313628376672675154" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6KxJYX7AI0j1yp59pk2We0Czu_nZfLIgcYW6jDuY8CZl5EnnQMKZdvzqqKIOGU0NwQ-QrS2iUrBvp1zd0_QKrUiPku40TMsrRiKG4nwLn8FuuT3fLHb567slZsSGEVmvZBv-/s1600-h/Quanzhou+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6KxJYX7AI0j1yp59pk2We0Czu_nZfLIgcYW6jDuY8CZl5EnnQMKZdvzqqKIOGU0NwQ-QrS2iUrBvp1zd0_QKrUiPku40TMsrRiKG4nwLn8FuuT3fLHb567slZsSGEVmvZBv-/s320/Quanzhou+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313628365893628802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shanghai</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYG7cOPdWw3YZpuakTfjqulFf3eFefVp4a9Iaw7nTbLEm9rLzyfwxmdVTIUzzlLGy7-0pSd3MGy5NkIYGSUkhy2V7xanjMUasPHbQF6KrycJhI6GgDaCZ4bTSTsJ2Se1gmR0i6/s1600-h/Shanghai+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYG7cOPdWw3YZpuakTfjqulFf3eFefVp4a9Iaw7nTbLEm9rLzyfwxmdVTIUzzlLGy7-0pSd3MGy5NkIYGSUkhy2V7xanjMUasPHbQF6KrycJhI6GgDaCZ4bTSTsJ2Se1gmR0i6/s320/Shanghai+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313628370752129170" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnu__EcjP7fhovOHo3gEOS_APhjvI8saMBfJL7RNkQwTjQ0LpDCEL0nB0hsF9tePF68gJ6L71J2Y9oGbKdURRfZ2Aafh035NfI1I8pgboxqXcYcYqolP74h951Csq-t3P5U5s/s1600-h/Shanghai+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicnu__EcjP7fhovOHo3gEOS_APhjvI8saMBfJL7RNkQwTjQ0LpDCEL0nB0hsF9tePF68gJ6L71J2Y9oGbKdURRfZ2Aafh035NfI1I8pgboxqXcYcYqolP74h951Csq-t3P5U5s/s320/Shanghai+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313628373404616674" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Xiamen</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvPJE-OmATh0tZ7AhhDqyAL1FxyJHBAw2zii56OC2v4TMGaKeiUKX2vkc2UeSYuBISPcevGqmghKvUul_6wZtRDb4hOcYcOwBKOc5h7uBrOJzXY9z__pT2CGfunHczoX1RYYg/s1600-h/Xiamen.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvPJE-OmATh0tZ7AhhDqyAL1FxyJHBAw2zii56OC2v4TMGaKeiUKX2vkc2UeSYuBISPcevGqmghKvUul_6wZtRDb4hOcYcOwBKOc5h7uBrOJzXY9z__pT2CGfunHczoX1RYYg/s320/Xiamen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313628355356311778" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Haikou</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj365eAx6QMjbHZ5dXCYLt18WKq9c5NFgqkduAnk30Zl4WVbcvJbCKODNEumrlqGNps6pCi2zfMKv00WNMDwfyNGUCZGb5rxloeO5VsbDo_nE4PkxjJl5HPxaaOhrqL98pqrZ_H/s1600-h/Haikou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj365eAx6QMjbHZ5dXCYLt18WKq9c5NFgqkduAnk30Zl4WVbcvJbCKODNEumrlqGNps6pCi2zfMKv00WNMDwfyNGUCZGb5rxloeO5VsbDo_nE4PkxjJl5HPxaaOhrqL98pqrZ_H/s320/Haikou.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313626860975167314" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Longji Riceterraces</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHcBgU-B7ptKIat8tWhgQjOIQs3TzLSByvIJITCnO9vL-J_pSaeoH_5bD5TIJPYFOCcOaVbPry3akzMhMy6W_OoTySPz_k5DDeBYrpEnBx7tth0cAyLfD9A4ruiObgjHWqtDk/s1600-h/Longji.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCHcBgU-B7ptKIat8tWhgQjOIQs3TzLSByvIJITCnO9vL-J_pSaeoH_5bD5TIJPYFOCcOaVbPry3akzMhMy6W_OoTySPz_k5DDeBYrpEnBx7tth0cAyLfD9A4ruiObgjHWqtDk/s320/Longji.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313626854708504866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_obEmKTFtcNCEYuoSI5hpDuLHQuPNBBGkjCThGsK01gD7fhspSMC6YWExFEKbeIDQtWsTdlXDv8QneXuGh_MW5l1ErE1ZH88dusbvRZ09invF4Vh7-e3lwos5eo5lNCyi0SG/s1600-h/Longji+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje_obEmKTFtcNCEYuoSI5hpDuLHQuPNBBGkjCThGsK01gD7fhspSMC6YWExFEKbeIDQtWsTdlXDv8QneXuGh_MW5l1ErE1ZH88dusbvRZ09invF4Vh7-e3lwos5eo5lNCyi0SG/s320/Longji+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313626848743925474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Guilin</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tRXG5jePcn7piYuF87ynK3iJwX4oy3eqQQrJlbPQIxq_yq1YqhSfGktxpl46O2R8eSHKNH3QpB_0bRG96Hnj9WD7pcoik5DHTA73MXhZOaU9OeuelmfnKmzB1b9K3uVHJ-gP/s1600-h/Guilin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tRXG5jePcn7piYuF87ynK3iJwX4oy3eqQQrJlbPQIxq_yq1YqhSfGktxpl46O2R8eSHKNH3QpB_0bRG96Hnj9WD7pcoik5DHTA73MXhZOaU9OeuelmfnKmzB1b9K3uVHJ-gP/s320/Guilin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313626834659297714" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgpRE1QV0ZKlxWBkZ_JQlkvtC185LIFOF1qtU71yrt3DxzBzExSSlws-5-Alkqi53-0GlhcQpgVu2tkQzUnyRJ9SmDy9SgryHS4ZT9w_jC4O5OFmIhhyphenhyphenrr-jY13pUzuvWkSQfx/s1600-h/Guilin+5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW2ftWo_mB7NBbKheKAjgUVmwwjflCoe16g9tNsh_sbXk5SmRiRPCJ3j-PXWm70r-fT0yZgudmZuBD7HPzEdb8DKEWddcj94HzmtP6IQ3ejRyIxTHq5Abv0F63ydW2nxnf4hu2/s320/Guilin+7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313622034204195474" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yangshuo</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRfGQ8f4fLFyI6Bi58OQ1K8Z_YQKOBt7rLFQ0jUqJ3PB3ELI7Er7IwBhrqSPkUVk9aPZR29Oepx_R8lg9p1joyStGKzf7XAW86W-Bcn8_HZvaEtMTUgpMLLXy-2-tOMuw5ML1/s1600-h/Yangshou+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVRfGQ8f4fLFyI6Bi58OQ1K8Z_YQKOBt7rLFQ0jUqJ3PB3ELI7Er7IwBhrqSPkUVk9aPZR29Oepx_R8lg9p1joyStGKzf7XAW86W-Bcn8_HZvaEtMTUgpMLLXy-2-tOMuw5ML1/s320/Yangshou+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5313622032661964578" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR3Egx1VvSLZN3Aod3MSpo1bNqqQFffAYybeMkUMb_WmgnRn5WFc1NjZBIVkDGCM-SOqfVGakJLJmmY2aOfRkYkD-TXAVE1DuAWAJS9y8FpFdsPwN9XS4A94_4WirTCPaCCyvt/s1600-h/Yangshou+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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It is the country where the woman behind the 'English speaking' counter on the train station doesn't speak English. It is the country where a 26 year old woman wears a pink 'hello kitty' t-shirt without feeling embarrassed. It is the country where a group of nicotine addicts lean against a 'no smoking' sign. It is the country with the largest population and probably the most peaceful and hard-working people in the world. It is, besides the Netherlands, the country where I spent most of my life and I keep coming back to it. Already the 6th time I am visiting this fascinating and diverse country and it definitely won't be my last visit. This is China and I love this country.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhraDvREULRrq3UUXYXIY33SIGYcYsZFmeX8XxGvR6f9qkEK4RsCQ0Yp-CoKZycRcF3xExFvN04ydKNAEkIYCFQWx_BBZZmvUCMFl2PRv5s_EfrUSFV4wZmJ7516iqgXT4KMd9m/s1600-h/Hong+Kong.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325251049510620258" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhraDvREULRrq3UUXYXIY33SIGYcYsZFmeX8XxGvR6f9qkEK4RsCQ0Yp-CoKZycRcF3xExFvN04ydKNAEkIYCFQWx_BBZZmvUCMFl2PRv5s_EfrUSFV4wZmJ7516iqgXT4KMd9m/s200/Hong+Kong.JPG" border="0" /></a>This sixth journey through China started in the city I called home for the past 4 month: Hong Kong. It was a few days before Christmas and I started to arrange some 'check-out procedures' at the <a href="http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/v6/en/">Chinese</a><a href="http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/v6/en/"> University</a>. I already knew that after I crossed the border to China, I couldn't come back to Hong Kong, as I didn't had enough space in my passport for a new Hong Kong student-stamp (that is a good reason ha?). So I really had to arrange everything before crossing the border. I finished my last geography paper, packed all my stuff, said goodbye to my friends and moved to a guesthouse in Causeway Bay. I picked up my father from the airport and we stayed a few days in Hong Kong, visiting its major tourist sites. We went up Victoria Peak for some skyline views, walked around in Tsim Sha Tsui <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuRnxLgP2igR-viazFucN4Sv3nIimOtL-D_ukSOyWlHBFSRRzSNZa3CodT_XM4Wp6pgjicrAmY7x5N4rjIgEY-U3Wgc2vdhPFnBGA5axQHb5qQCTZCqKcvIFWiuk844P9hATI/s1600-h/Yangshou+6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246662450521970" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFuRnxLgP2igR-viazFucN4Sv3nIimOtL-D_ukSOyWlHBFSRRzSNZa3CodT_XM4Wp6pgjicrAmY7x5N4rjIgEY-U3Wgc2vdhPFnBGA5axQHb5qQCTZCqKcvIFWiuk844P9hATI/s200/Yangshou+6.jpg" border="0" /></a>and Central for some skyscrapers and I showed him around the Chinese University. As a day-trip we took a ferry to Cheung Chau island, which has a totally different atmosphere than the city. One of the things I liked most of Hong Kong is the diversity of its territory. Standing in the middle of one of Asia's largest cities, you can be laying on an empty beach with a view over beautiful islands within half an hour. Hong Kong is much more than just a city; it has a huge backyard full of islands, mountains, forests and villages. So my father Frans and I went to Cheung Chau, which is a small island just half an hour by ferry from Central Hong Kong. We hiked a bit around the island, stopped at a few nice viewpoints and temples and enjoyed a cold Tsingtao beer afterward. </div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in the city, on Christmas eve, Hong Kong was absolutely flooded with people. It seemed that all the 7 million inhabitants were out on the streets that evening. In the masses, I met some friends from CUHK and joined them for a few beers that evening. Next day, Christmas, we took the quick MTR to the Chinese border and went to Shenzhen's Bao'an Airport for our flight to Hainan Island. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMlrNfjEyvvm2D_IBi1oeBaLRSX6-UtFIAS8_MAenuF-0CmqeKlPNcap7IcW61FNVMR9WJKWIPf8tLBG4fGfXKv9G7Z25rh8cUIEsHawIJJvZfPX4Pkc8UdxFbAIypES2FgHx/s1600-h/Haikou.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325248875958331202" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihMlrNfjEyvvm2D_IBi1oeBaLRSX6-UtFIAS8_MAenuF-0CmqeKlPNcap7IcW61FNVMR9WJKWIPf8tLBG4fGfXKv9G7Z25rh8cUIEsHawIJJvZfPX4Pkc8UdxFbAIypES2FgHx/s200/Haikou.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />So we flew to Haikou, the capital of <a href="http://z.about.com/d/gochina/1/0/Q/B/-/-/Hainan_Province.jpg">Hainan province</a>. We chose to visit Hainan, because my father doesn't really like large cities and we were in the mood of some nice beaches and high temperatures. Hainan is the logical location to go to, as it has a reputation of being China's own 'Hawaii'. The sandy coastline of the island is surrounded by palmtrees and it is one of China's main domestic tourist destinations. Besides Chinese tourists, the island is also extremely popular for Russian tourists. A Swiss tourguide told me, that the Russians in Hainan mostly come from Eastern Russia (Siberia and the Far East), because for them Hainan offers tropical beaches relatively close to Siberia. We would see loads of Russian tourists in Sanya, but more on that later. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wMtSNvBTEpmNvuMZX9AnrpuUiFOBJBqFa5ffpqimcULt3Us5IvboZoDIVu8K6DQBWpPN4PpbPUMo9ZwQk4QCFjudz4PUFTEhRZuDK0VxAoQRA6-DisHT3LvyjDyzUzFLpzRu/s1600-h/Sanya.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325250525313705474" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wMtSNvBTEpmNvuMZX9AnrpuUiFOBJBqFa5ffpqimcULt3Us5IvboZoDIVu8K6DQBWpPN4PpbPUMo9ZwQk4QCFjudz4PUFTEhRZuDK0VxAoQRA6-DisHT3LvyjDyzUzFLpzRu/s200/Sanya.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />After arriving in Haikou, we went to the city center with an airport bus and with a taxi driver we searched for a place called the Banana guesthouse. Unfortunately we couldn't find the place and we ended up in some sort of brothel hotel. We drank a few beers in an outdoor restaurant before trying to sleep with noises of a shaking bed in the room next to us. Next day we walked a bit around town, visiting Haikou's market area and a nice Confucian temple. Due to rainy weather we didn't see much more of the city besides a noodle shop and the temple, so we continued southwards to Sanya in the hope of better weather. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPze8rBtwpKpnVdcE5dDlonlsYY1Jmhc0pHIzceyt4jqjbQbA5WSNP8SDZNOwVdR8gQRdsVXYgagv3Zkl7XmxYzPDo0Oh9C1GWhHINnlam9iz-3ehjMJkMgav4k2MgnLwJ4xXl/s1600-h/Sanya+2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325250528301360002" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPze8rBtwpKpnVdcE5dDlonlsYY1Jmhc0pHIzceyt4jqjbQbA5WSNP8SDZNOwVdR8gQRdsVXYgagv3Zkl7XmxYzPDo0Oh9C1GWhHINnlam9iz-3ehjMJkMgav4k2MgnLwJ4xXl/s200/Sanya+2.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />The southern side of Hainan turned out to be as cloudy and rainy as the north, so also in Sanya we couldn't really enjoy the beaches. The atmosphere in the area we stayed in was nice however, and fruit shakes, beach views and a Chinese woman singing in four different languages still made our stay worthwhile. Around the beach are really loads of Russian tourists and the streets are even filled with Russian shops, which made communication with the Chinese a bit easier for me as a lot of them speak Russian. During our stay we hang a bit around, talked to some travelers in the guesthouse and I met two friends from CUHK who were traveling in Hainan as well. Besides beaches and Russians, Sanya is also famous for its navy base, which is the largest and most important in China. A whole area of the city is closed off to visitors because of this base and when we walked past the main entrance, some military guys started shouting at us as apparently we walked too close to the main entrance. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuEe6LRGXLMZYvOKPiAFC6IE5aOf2mjGaGWZ1gOLY4eag06pnfmjYFgtxxrGJ8KumkYm3VqU8HQU6DIchl7MQm1P2bKV5mX0sZaewkgC2C7DP9mUv64TNoZhev3aLDa8HudH_/s1600-h/Guilin+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325250755775821170" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTuEe6LRGXLMZYvOKPiAFC6IE5aOf2mjGaGWZ1gOLY4eag06pnfmjYFgtxxrGJ8KumkYm3VqU8HQU6DIchl7MQm1P2bKV5mX0sZaewkgC2C7DP9mUv64TNoZhev3aLDa8HudH_/s200/Guilin+2.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, after a few days relaxing in Sanya, we flew to Guilin in <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/China_Guangxi.svg">Guangxi</a> province. Stepping out of the small airport, we were reminded of the fact that it was late December, as Guilin was much colder than Hainan. We made our way to the city and stayed in a very friendly hostel. The rest of the day we visited some of Guilin's famous hills. We climbed Fubo Hill for some views over the city and visited strangely shaped Elephant Hill. Guilin is one of China's most popular tourist destinations and famous for its unique scenery. The area is surrounded by the strange karst formations and therefore one of the country's mostly photographed sights. The idyllic Li river flows through Guilin and completes the picture. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8FWS0T0HYK7SwBwiPxd63KVSDO5g2l_mqZHG_m7Vs-D5LvARHoWZ6YEH2VIda3bsrM8jT3h8y-I_RZtGiE5MJUj9J6-zxYTIZr9DlUI8JSecSKgJUz3tPbxNd0VWymArBbrB/s1600-h/Guilin+6.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246675769976642" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE8FWS0T0HYK7SwBwiPxd63KVSDO5g2l_mqZHG_m7Vs-D5LvARHoWZ6YEH2VIda3bsrM8jT3h8y-I_RZtGiE5MJUj9J6-zxYTIZr9DlUI8JSecSKgJUz3tPbxNd0VWymArBbrB/s200/Guilin+6.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We spent our remaining days in Guilin by strolling around the nice city and visiting some lakes, pagodas and more hills. During a walk in 'Solitary Beauty Park', we saw loads of Chinese tour groups, all wearing caps and following a guide who holds a colored flag. This typical scene of domestic tourists can be seen all over China actually, I think it is really funny to see and it reveals some elements of Chinese culture.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODuacXC40qqmtbia6lKRUoFQ8pY8PSSQJUaWTbcM03Nog50fUlgmsxMscB8NbJuqF3OH7ljhhCHFvRknnGJcEWzXjnEJvQvLo39T9VTkTycIw8vCK5UrhnJM9zG6TSM8sVGCu/s1600-h/Guilin+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325248870891240274" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhODuacXC40qqmtbia6lKRUoFQ8pY8PSSQJUaWTbcM03Nog50fUlgmsxMscB8NbJuqF3OH7ljhhCHFvRknnGJcEWzXjnEJvQvLo39T9VTkTycIw8vCK5UrhnJM9zG6TSM8sVGCu/s200/Guilin+3.jpg" border="0" /></a> I met some of those Chinese on top of a hill in the park, who asked me to be on a photo with them. Really funny to be on someone's photo without knowing them, also a typical China experience. After the park, my dad and I went to another highlight of Guilin: the Lude cave. Guilin's karst formations host lots of caves and Lude probably is the most beautiful. The cave is absolutely huge and well lit inside. In a side cave we visited a 1000 year old turtle, who is kind of worshiped, the animal is so old that he barely moves.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3QaHTAR-wXQhum7s_MsYLyh_KUbj30MtLbmpiR6zjQhTRutOSsJIb-6Hqbkh7LFbBHqFOB5QO6HCJChYiImVyHilC6W5RdfG26shyMBtNFpBG51NLad_-u84T6VzD7SmSLAC/s1600-h/Longji+2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325248859993906690" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-3QaHTAR-wXQhum7s_MsYLyh_KUbj30MtLbmpiR6zjQhTRutOSsJIb-6Hqbkh7LFbBHqFOB5QO6HCJChYiImVyHilC6W5RdfG26shyMBtNFpBG51NLad_-u84T6VzD7SmSLAC/s200/Longji+2.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in the hostel we met a French guy, Stephane, and a British guy, Oliver, with whom we drunk some Tsingtao beers and enjoyed some conversation. The day after, which was 31st December, we went for a 'New Year's dinner' in a steak restaurant with Stephane and celebrated the changing of 2008 into 2009 in a local disco. The Chinese didn't really celebrate the New Year, because their lunar calendar marks the point of year-change usually in late January or early February. In Guilin, obviously the Chinese New Year is much more important than the Western New Year, so no firework unfortunately. I still enjoyed our little celebration however.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBvN8DQAurMs7JxolKMNKh8KQa8ohNkHuwnM8ihlufsXSeGf-apcHsYPCdB7cuFtyEcJTYQ-2dX1KomzDQuDBunxnpY3L7O5C6GmuLVItuwmPNV__shti6cnhkj_Q79VhPUYq/s1600-h/Longji+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246667147470306" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdBvN8DQAurMs7JxolKMNKh8KQa8ohNkHuwnM8ihlufsXSeGf-apcHsYPCdB7cuFtyEcJTYQ-2dX1KomzDQuDBunxnpY3L7O5C6GmuLVItuwmPNV__shti6cnhkj_Q79VhPUYq/s200/Longji+3.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">From Guilin we continued our journey to the city Longsheng, where we had a quick lunch and went up a steep mountain road to a village called Pa'an. The village is beautifully located in the middle of the Longji riceterraces and consists of traditional wooden houses. We walked a bit around the amazing rice terraces up to a few viewpoints. Although the terraces probably look much better in summer, spring or autumn, the views we had are still stunning. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZd5qFtSblCcRJ32KZWoSO-g9nOVqmYTVD-bVCnAUUANan3_rbGkXUNs3rRsrlCC5BoUp8UqNe1sL_i587Qc_9wf5LdnFIWtigYBWz20SYDsFLlIr_zMLp4fU_XBp6kjLD34tK/s1600-h/Longji+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325248866461303586" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZd5qFtSblCcRJ32KZWoSO-g9nOVqmYTVD-bVCnAUUANan3_rbGkXUNs3rRsrlCC5BoUp8UqNe1sL_i587Qc_9wf5LdnFIWtigYBWz20SYDsFLlIr_zMLp4fU_XBp6kjLD34tK/s200/Longji+4.jpg" border="0" /></a>Pa'an village is, besides tourism, based on agriculture. Chicken, dogs, ducks and pigs walk along its narrow streets, which make the scene of this picturesque village complete. We stayed in a friendly wooden guesthouse, but as the temperature dropped during the night it got freezing cold there. Two thick blankets made me survive the weather and next day we hiked a bit more and hopped on a bus back to Guilin.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHsd3LonbM94SzWeKfelTwokXeNqpc7QfLivDaQAdXblsT41QOGEpSei-g18mPA3b6eT3drTKOio56-Y3H9-UKUAbXy9olOy1w1uDuUBRoEt39XBso93QYDyis6o9Na_jYaL0H/s1600-h/Yangshou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246672626323810" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHsd3LonbM94SzWeKfelTwokXeNqpc7QfLivDaQAdXblsT41QOGEpSei-g18mPA3b6eT3drTKOio56-Y3H9-UKUAbXy9olOy1w1uDuUBRoEt39XBso93QYDyis6o9Na_jYaL0H/s200/Yangshou.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We stayed the night in Guilin, where we met Stephane and Oliver again and moved on to Yangshuo by bus the day after. Yangshuo is a small town one hour by car along the Li river from Guilin. I visited the town on my 2005 China trip and arguably the scenery around Yangshuo is more beautiful than Guilin, although it doesn't get the attention. We found a room in the 'Bamboo guesthouse', a place where I stayed 3,5 years ago as well, and we talked a bit with some Israelis that evening. Our first full day in Yangshuo we hired bicycles and cycled around the paddy field and the gorgeous karst scenery. The area along Li river is filled with sleepy villages, rough country roads, rice fields and buffaloes. The atmosphere is more relaxed than in Guilin, although also Yangshuo sees a lot of tourist folks. Next day, we made a boat trip on the Li river, together with a Swiss guy and a Isreali girl. The scenery again is absolutely beautiful; however I couldn't enjoy the boat ride fully due to the cold and windy weather. One point along the Li river is especially famous in China, because it is printed on the 20 Yuan banknote. With the boat we arrived in a small village and took a bus back to Yangshuo. The day after we traveled back to Guilin and my father flew to Shenzhen and went back home from Hong Kong. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QDMhrquwp_1dBmUpOaxnO9xF5Rh1Mi3BtZE81lOi9YYDxcS87z1pIShsdf0jnnynwVxBj3gUnX08QL8Cq-QxpahFXjPTSImEjXBPmLeTLrBk0FoKJkgDcdhReZ6bzkkr8D1M/s1600-h/Yangshou+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px; float: left; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325248860620700258" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8QDMhrquwp_1dBmUpOaxnO9xF5Rh1Mi3BtZE81lOi9YYDxcS87z1pIShsdf0jnnynwVxBj3gUnX08QL8Cq-QxpahFXjPTSImEjXBPmLeTLrBk0FoKJkgDcdhReZ6bzkkr8D1M/s200/Yangshou+4.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Myself, I took a flight to Shanghai to visit some friends and I made a day trip to nearby Suzhou. I didn't do much in Shanghai, I hang a bit around meeting friends and I prepared myself for the next destination, Myanmar. The daytrip to Suzhou wasn't very productive either, although I still got a glimpse of the city's famous gardens. After those few relaxing days in Shanghai, I moved back southwards as I had a flight booked from Shenzhen. I booked a train ticket to the southern city Guangzhou, but unfortunately I had to spend the 17 hour ride in the lowest class: hard seat. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqo85esmTTgobXI0EfgqzI2gUmZ8nTUJarDgO7-oV22HhTmOw9mb_0cWrkYhcTc0T9T4Zg7RHnhIY3WnKHYwRjMgSIg6wK5dAwBlIbd3ecPOCHEUHw5R4Cqs0LEc8BQ4JypdTW/s1600-h/Suzhou.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px; float: right; height: 134px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325246661905335314" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqo85esmTTgobXI0EfgqzI2gUmZ8nTUJarDgO7-oV22HhTmOw9mb_0cWrkYhcTc0T9T4Zg7RHnhIY3WnKHYwRjMgSIg6wK5dAwBlIbd3ecPOCHEUHw5R4Cqs0LEc8BQ4JypdTW/s200/Suzhou.jpg" border="0" /></a>All sleeper tickets were sold out, so the long journey to Guangzhou turned out to be a tough one. I strolled a bit around in Guangzhou and went on to Shenzhen. I finished this sixth China journey at Shenzhen's Bao'an airport, from where I flew to Bangkok.</div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-61029018506858756892008-12-15T09:05:00.016+01:002009-05-23T05:57:18.423+02:00The soul of modern China, a short journey along the East coast<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2o81t6YOxOIAE5ITb0k7pS91kovxifgdJnwKZ9zMJyQG9cgiRWgC6TlXjV1PRhDWCmdTmsGeuvC79_EjvyC28AVWk4R3BezzsTSPtz0MU8VL3_oio_3tVKB3BnlbGIbhnhZ0/s1600-h/IMG_8417.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306281558098214130" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 267px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB2o81t6YOxOIAE5ITb0k7pS91kovxifgdJnwKZ9zMJyQG9cgiRWgC6TlXjV1PRhDWCmdTmsGeuvC79_EjvyC28AVWk4R3BezzsTSPtz0MU8VL3_oio_3tVKB3BnlbGIbhnhZ0/s400/IMG_8417.JPG" border="0" /></a>December 5th, Hong Kong, China<br /><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is 9.30 in the morning and I am standing in front of the 7-eleven next to the University metro station in Hong Kong. I haven't slept last night as I had to finish two geography papers. I drank the 5th cup of coffee since midnight and I met two of my fellow exchange students Hans and Theresa (both German). Together we went on Hong Kong's perfect MTR metro system to the border with Mainland China at Lo Hu. At the Chinese immigrations the border guard looked at my passport picture for quite a long time and then, while pointing at my picture, asked me: 'is this you?'. For a second I thought telling him: 'no its that Chinese guy over there, can't you see?'. But I kept my patience and said: 'yes, its me'. Than the border guard flicked through my passport and found my Hong Kong student visa. He asked me: 'are you a student?' After that long night of studying, I almost lost control and for a while I thought of telling him: 'no I am a terrorist who is going to make a suicide attack in your country'. But I stayed cool and said: 'yes I study in Hong Kong'. OK sir, welcome to China! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0tB2s74RZCHpkHttACablIKKrD56rg8B1MKW3gPuMRwgSyIL1FSpVqImQ0BuYLsgtdLzyg0LRrFrKM3o1t_3Idj0USmBwHhL3UrxcZ9b-lXKbMG1TXp9UT8AyW1rAIReCLwdI/s1600-h/IMG_8265.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306278470205305026" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0tB2s74RZCHpkHttACablIKKrD56rg8B1MKW3gPuMRwgSyIL1FSpVqImQ0BuYLsgtdLzyg0LRrFrKM3o1t_3Idj0USmBwHhL3UrxcZ9b-lXKbMG1TXp9UT8AyW1rAIReCLwdI/s200/IMG_8265.JPG" border="0" /></a>Shenzhen is a huge city directly after the border from Hong Kong. It is one of the 'Special Economic Zones', which basically means it consists of kilometers of factories and concrete buildings. I guess most people never heard of Shenzhen, but it actually is one of the largest cities in China, population wise it is with 8 million inhabitants even bigger than Hong Kong. For tourists there is nothing to see in Shenzhen really, but flying from Shenzhen's airport is cheap, that's why we went there. We catched our China Southern flight to Shanghai's Hongqiao airport and after arrival we took a bus to our remarkably nice hostel smack in the center of bustling Shanghai. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC_lqiwhlvEIfzXaiV6ZBUJLiw0W4qgqMV0Z9GLQp_SY5q5Z8Yae8Me5pAeYeSoElNX3Z-3XfrVFufJxj9eFpW3se95tslPc7CovimuT8oMwraoUbE0QM7PTe6o9KE3R7d_8F/s1600-h/IMG_8254.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306276085182243298" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAC_lqiwhlvEIfzXaiV6ZBUJLiw0W4qgqMV0Z9GLQp_SY5q5Z8Yae8Me5pAeYeSoElNX3Z-3XfrVFufJxj9eFpW3se95tslPc7CovimuT8oMwraoUbE0QM7PTe6o9KE3R7d_8F/s200/IMG_8254.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Next day I went with Hans and Theresa on a day trip to Hangzhou. From Shanghai we hopped on one of China's newly developed high-speed trains, which brought us to Hangzhou in less than 2 hours. This high-speed railway system is one sign of China's rapid modernization. Within the last ten years, a high-speed railway system has been built around Beijing-Tianjin, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou and in the Pearl River Delta (around Guangzhou and Shenzhen). To compare, it took the Dutch government over 25 years to work on a high-speed railway track from Amsterdam to the Belgium border (which is less than 200km). Still it is not completely finished. Not to mention the reconstruction of Amsterdam's main railway station, which has been a construction site for the past 5 years and isn't finished yet. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomjlicnjM95CB9EYqmkztO4uKOCCDdH33ZFizcQmKlZ6_x3iElu1TzXRqK0l8nnxe6NGg7N9d7GhzsIOHvn4-NH6t_-oOw3eQ7axQTQHoUGUydJm8xOPZEHQmi9cX69e8jYJj/s1600-h/IMG_8437.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306278469622191042" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgomjlicnjM95CB9EYqmkztO4uKOCCDdH33ZFizcQmKlZ6_x3iElu1TzXRqK0l8nnxe6NGg7N9d7GhzsIOHvn4-NH6t_-oOw3eQ7axQTQHoUGUydJm8xOPZEHQmi9cX69e8jYJj/s200/IMG_8437.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Anyway, we arrived in Hangzhou, a large typical Chinese city and the capital of Zhejiang province. We met some of Hans' friends at Hangzhou's railway station and we strolled along Hangzhou's famous 'West Lake' (Xi Hu). The beautiful lake, the boats in the lake, the colors of the trees and the peaceful atmosphere made it a really nice walk and we rewarded ourselves with a nice lunch afterwards. In the afternoon we vis<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97z1StL6d0vzWpQ9U5qJY8WZBarlJmLsQzl5bR58EqxwEkVCh0K_UIxEqFvG_jv8RMJq_9nsSu6PcHx-wfh4aPisNGHUlp3v39QIGROLYWqKym04dJY78a1aUfFvs5A7_cy89/s1600-h/IMG_8417.JPG"></a>ited a tea plantation and hiked a bit up a hill for a view over the city. On the hill we saw a colorful Chinese wedding ceremony in a small temple. We warmed up a bit with coffee and went back to Shanghai. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHScX7LqH4LhVnG2IanIhjP4i6xcwLkhY5qo0TomIsvK9rg8BnZHo3ddSjkaF1kgg0_Xg8-fz6VEeGqh7qbnVRY9HyQRwTACQD3NS1erm8f9HBNe3AxUZbQbQjuT26yopXN3VD/s1600-h/IMG_3599.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306279418030412386" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 150px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHScX7LqH4LhVnG2IanIhjP4i6xcwLkhY5qo0TomIsvK9rg8BnZHo3ddSjkaF1kgg0_Xg8-fz6VEeGqh7qbnVRY9HyQRwTACQD3NS1erm8f9HBNe3AxUZbQbQjuT26yopXN3VD/s200/IMG_3599.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Back in Shanghai I continued my search for China's modern soul. With the Germans I went to some of Shanghai's best clubs, where the newly rich and famous Chinese spend their Renminbi on expensive Tsingtao beers and cocktails. By coincidence I met Joanne outside a club at 3am in the night. Joanne is a Shanghainese woman who works for a PR-company. The very strange thing here is that I met her for the first time in Beijing .... 3 weeks before; the world is very small. The following days she would show me some more of what Shanghai is all about and I met lots of her friends.<br />The Germans left Shanghai a few days earlier than me, because I had to spend some extra days in an internetcafe in order to finish another geography paper. In the few hours I wasn't studying, I went into the Grand Hyatt hotel, one of the most expensive hotels in Shanghai. The reason was a to see Shanghai's impressive skyline from the rooftop lounge bar on the 32nd floor of the hotel. Modern China at it's best. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4H5URHm8tu6sBYmxMPL51hAUjmgRgVj9ThDK6SlOWLhkOb8UoHwmMKkzd7zliM_EwJ9LrqS5zMxQmqM7A1NHzHkNQvHWQhHg9qbgJnFv7LCcFSSJNr6jMblbrDHia9MMTvd-/s1600-h/IMG_8541.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306276086591541346" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgp4H5URHm8tu6sBYmxMPL51hAUjmgRgVj9ThDK6SlOWLhkOb8UoHwmMKkzd7zliM_EwJ9LrqS5zMxQmqM7A1NHzHkNQvHWQhHg9qbgJnFv7LCcFSSJNr6jMblbrDHia9MMTvd-/s200/IMG_8541.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Completely different than Beijing, Shanghai really represents the modern soul of China. The open-mindness of the Shanghainese contrasts with the more traditional way of living in Beijing. The city is the economic heart of China, while Beijing has the role of being the political center in the country. The flip side of the coin is the enormous gap between rich and poor people, which is enormous in Shanghai compared with other Chinese cities. Dressed up in nice suits and driving around in new BMWs, Shanghai is home for the richest Chinese. On the other hand, the city is filled with beggars, prostitutes and a high number of poor workers from the countryside. The contrast between rich and poor or traditional and modern is nowhere in China as huge as in Shanghai. But that is exactly what makes it a very interesting metropolis. After 5 days already, I was a bit sad to leave the booming city, but I decided to continue my journey southwards. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Hx9KUqXNys2Oak33e7R7S1bINVOJFpI9crk7hJ29NAL5KPRa_XuFdrjnS0JMJ28MsxZJotZuPaJJpNTNCGFFOekkOLzOlypnRvECL8fwgq5UBJrmOiPLA-KLM_fo5kKwq4Ry/s1600-h/IMG_8635.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306278473247015842" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Hx9KUqXNys2Oak33e7R7S1bINVOJFpI9crk7hJ29NAL5KPRa_XuFdrjnS0JMJ28MsxZJotZuPaJJpNTNCGFFOekkOLzOlypnRvECL8fwgq5UBJrmOiPLA-KLM_fo5kKwq4Ry/s200/IMG_8635.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />Next day I met some guys in People's Park, who invited me for a traditional Chinese tea ceremony, which turned out to be very nice. Afterward I rushed to the bus station to catch my relaxing sleeper to Quanzhou, 15 hours south of Shanghai in Fujian province. I arrived early in the morning and went to the city center on the back of a motorbike. I found myself some baozi for breakfast and strolled around the city. Quanzhou is for Chinese standards not a large city (population over 2 million....), but had historical importance in the time of the maritime silk road. In the days of Arabian traders, Quanzhou was one of the most important ports in the world and the Arab influence is still visible today in Quanzhou's large Muslim community and heritage. I visited the main mosque and strolled a bit through the old streets of the city. The chaotic streets of Quanzhou are filled with motorbikes, scooters and bicycles, which suit the subtropical climate of Fujian province. My walk brought me past some traditional houses to a temple with two beautiful pagodas. The area is surrounded by a park and made a worthwhile stop. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppArIV8xpnd_h-2AJ8tp7AeQHWnmqPxnPhmYcNKUPrWzw_84I57Pe73uZWpvYNYvC_Oxcg1Re_3habu0reXxIhcUue3t26j3jqRGQz7kcEbJLsxNc0oFUFECFqMvJ2Y_8QutV/s1600-h/IMG_8583.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306278478178767362" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 134px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgppArIV8xpnd_h-2AJ8tp7AeQHWnmqPxnPhmYcNKUPrWzw_84I57Pe73uZWpvYNYvC_Oxcg1Re_3habu0reXxIhcUue3t26j3jqRGQz7kcEbJLsxNc0oFUFECFqMvJ2Y_8QutV/s200/IMG_8583.JPG" border="0" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFRDQbp3g1QLraEuTffyQZSoqpfG6zdxQ1oSHb64T8oU1CqWjqcExOzzgdVnBL0DoGwtvZ0e3_wX0WXeD5YMMaN00zDX-0qjoXFR4OCq9tFgml6XwJsl_EG-h3nc7xPtQhGXvm/s1600-h/IMG_8704.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306276075764081906" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 134px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFRDQbp3g1QLraEuTffyQZSoqpfG6zdxQ1oSHb64T8oU1CqWjqcExOzzgdVnBL0DoGwtvZ0e3_wX0WXeD5YMMaN00zDX-0qjoXFR4OCq9tFgml6XwJsl_EG-h3nc7xPtQhGXvm/s200/IMG_8704.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />After several hours of sightseeing in Quanzhou, I hopped on a bus to one of China's major coastal cities, Xiamen. Like Quanzhou, also Xiamen is an important historical port, especially during the time of European trade when the city was called Amoy. Today, Xiamen still is one of China's major port cities, especially because it is (like Shenzhen) a Special Economic Zone. During my stay in Xiamen I went for a day to Gulangyu Island, which is just a 10 minute ferry ride away. The island had been a European enclave since the treaty of Nanking in 1842 and this is visible in the numerous European style buildings on the island. Walking on Gulangyu feels a bit like being in a mass of Chinese tourists somewhere in Portugal, as the island really looks like a Mediterranean town in Europe. I climbed a large rock in the middle of the island for a view over the Taiwan strait on one side and Xiamen city on the other. Afterwards I enjoyed a coconut on the subtropical beach and took a ferry to the city. Back in Xiamen I walked a bit around in the old part of the city and went to my hostel to get my backpacks. I walked to the bus station and catched a bumpy sleeper bus to Shenzhen, from where I crossed the Hong Kong immigrations. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxO7jcVurcMwud17XV3gP7VUBMq4Q-1qHZN5FksAFHkeJoxt2J-eQ7fl5FdVEs8-gc7r4M0NhRZ3nIhzuLUnItOwKVQJEeybnjZ_imKq3damGUSpgW8Ho8iCzgxYjXIkSlZRCF/s1600-h/IMG_8727.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306276074991337810" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 134px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxO7jcVurcMwud17XV3gP7VUBMq4Q-1qHZN5FksAFHkeJoxt2J-eQ7fl5FdVEs8-gc7r4M0NhRZ3nIhzuLUnItOwKVQJEeybnjZ_imKq3damGUSpgW8Ho8iCzgxYjXIkSlZRCF/s200/IMG_8727.JPG" border="0" /></a><br />In conclusion of this journey, all the cities I visited (probably with the exception of Quanzhou) are very much representing modern China. Skylines filled with flashy skyscrapers and the newly rich consuming their hardly earned Renminbi, it is very evident in China's eastern cities. On the other hand, the differences between rich and poor are much more vast here than in the West of the country. Totally different than agricultural based Western China, the East coast very much represents the ambitions of modernization. And Shanghai undoubtedly is the pearl of it. </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-17695716632660615862008-11-30T10:26:00.001+01:002009-05-23T05:57:48.908+02:00Studying abroad at Chinese University of Hong Kong<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivL1vM4bygbDPeIRBShAXfwXCYUipW9TzYcfoa1x4OwhX_1LGVh3Kcv9KipsYFg2A3a7hJeTem4zRBszNki01yoJ2gbnG6FmjVP5vr9Cf1aZfUx71QtbPlIXVFSK_dvuCcEynv/s1600-h/City+-+Skyline+from+the+Peak.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311870663715995090" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 400px; height: 300px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivL1vM4bygbDPeIRBShAXfwXCYUipW9TzYcfoa1x4OwhX_1LGVh3Kcv9KipsYFg2A3a7hJeTem4zRBszNki01yoJ2gbnG6FmjVP5vr9Cf1aZfUx71QtbPlIXVFSK_dvuCcEynv/s400/City+-+Skyline+from+the+Peak.JPG" border="0" /></a>Some pictures of my four-month stay in amazing Hong Kong. I won't write a full story here as I was mostly studying, rather than travelling. I stayed on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), which is located in the green New Territories. I putted some pics of the city, the university and the outer islands of Hong Kong. </div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;"></span></strong></div><div align="justify"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">CITY LIFE</span></strong></div><div align="justify"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311869482188805746" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ8JSCkxWsofC87vdsdo1-NS9IZM57yxz69-FbyLL-HpCnIpuj1OcAOtf2x0uqnKF1ElN5LH5kWkjDbjYct7gEl6rwnSNANpsX5yfERQv4RdSePfCI0uyh9gzInvazPj9ZNDYj/s320/City+-+Bruce+Lee.JPG" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"><strong>Causeway Bay</strong><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311869473964594802" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqLKpa0HUfdrTY3OOnBJB0Xwbhlnzwv14HKO6s0w5R1y3pFhNuxtsUgD-7KFIXadl12FxuYz0bn3UajVHM3boTp1JG7qvzkey9lZv-JedL_oXeK3jiAWA2_C4P1uJ6RNALVoku/s320/City+-+Causeway+Bay+apartments.jpg" border="0" /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311869478533456018" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 214px; height: 320px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0igy6h5iD4lErFmJu2saLaclQozTTVH4V9F3XPRa_xCY_MNPpm2-8ybzbE7vE4suJLoMgHFjiu136eS0rNVYlPpYEcwVeS90UBLLA1F13i8uQVIroIpEs5tikpPenVa1_xGeA/s320/City+-+Causeway+Bay.jpg" border="0" /><br /><strong>In front of the skyline</strong><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlhy5Rnczsp13pHOvHNwyqMXkP2klNvjXOO-rsnsSxb0mXZUbqNZr_pKNrSGZfYTcVBKIxRzpYBwsfqTkxEWMRJkpYn9U-MFeYrgQd0w4IjHg6ySnhMSuAurLs7GJN2vflCeA/s1600-h/City+-+Friends+and+skyline.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311869469982299618" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlhy5Rnczsp13pHOvHNwyqMXkP2klNvjXOO-rsnsSxb0mXZUbqNZr_pKNrSGZfYTcVBKIxRzpYBwsfqTkxEWMRJkpYn9U-MFeYrgQd0w4IjHg6ySnhMSuAurLs7GJN2vflCeA/s320/City+-+Friends+and+skyline.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div></div><div><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HK</span></strong><br /><div><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311869465073686322" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNNDHL_Zb0wjJN8a5n4L2vZDbuJ3TlJy7GTRkGPTDUiHPgznbfsVFXUIAEb-eC2QWK3ne5T38ffxJRot5j0sRS1WYXKXm1yrvcBl5xMkIwVx25uWLzf89PjiX8HJh93B0hgeOa/s320/CUHK+-+Campus.jpg" border="0" />My room<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311865516266843010" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcinUw5eIeuRGafZ9aCGehLEbEb4TLOuJ7iOPHK9vvDPtPnSPJM1ZEkI2qVmFz6-6goQ9nCxjiHM2ypeRpCBVRsTWozPJ8h2TQpjWWxQNbGchZ9ReC7jrx2gSzyQOkzdXKeZxS/s320/CUHK+-+Room.jpg" border="0" /></strong></div><div><strong>The big guys at uni<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311865511995972882" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxO6Qw2_4Zz5zVOS21Kpuu4EFyiEvCI2BsV9xSDTeQc0DcltGQF_I_6AvCFlL_huD9gu21FnJYYw7fzvvvpqYKrmGHcCHNrLOklqcJJMQUy5hYDaimMeh7rekScEajz2oR5wSP/s320/CUHK+-+Big+guys.JPG" border="0" /><span style="font-size:130%;">GREEN HONG KONG: THE ISLANDS</span></strong><br /><div><br /><div><strong>Cheung Chau Island</strong><br /><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311865511142588114" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipiMvj9ylrualmkKYsXQ8MNK44t6u69JQXCmX8jqycoZ9Nj9UGDP-6Codjn-Hx47deezOWi4hvsqrNbCBXtYh37vrHXDSMn90ydP1alFMFZxJNdDYLuuF9AdCphQqj1iGy16C8/s320/Green+HK+-+Cheung+Chau+beach.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311865510796558658" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGbw8SZiJsUqugpRF3kAm-vdLlcdNTnb9_ZV17hN71hSYHwsIgaLud4HRcqLNq9Bvtcz8As_vEw0PhpJKhLvM478Nb0F6WxdCo0plEYJnkL0x1mJUWonkOpglcZOR7A7yO_Vi/s320/Green+HK+-+Cheung+Chau+incense.jpg" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311865503945942226" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 214px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAokVcsx2CMPw5kRIFvYzATET4pb2H3_kFcBu0lqYHNpNNNqYmVSx6NNQui49yCoXryUy4WtozWJqJxpVRbCD_3VXYj_SFyxyYUaEneAUSslJbxXWP1l9Y95lJpKCds5GEWn_q/s320/Green+HK+-+Cheung+Chau+harbour.jpg" border="0" /> <div><div><div><div><div><div><div><strong>Hong Kong's best beach: Sai Wan</strong><br /></div><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311861436758618034" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9mF4iU0sR_kGOEA_U_PR5fgRGvDu17KPHariB2aQeFUdn1mhRxtOmFisRsWEY2uA_yiH451w5FhDHNWCjNjb1AW_IQhzWUAUN8IoJvFwB4nggb2gnz4BAFrLZysn5Ifh5J7Ui/s320/Green+HK+-+Sai+Wan+beach.JPG" border="0" />10000 Buddha monastery in Sha Tin</strong><br /><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311861437885818242" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpnFQ9cMJbpUwsEF1jkKIzp01Hari9Pi8UrNHqQztY5-hbVsfdQhgKAXx1ZaIBer_CcpG_bkcEyfEUraVQWYWh6mCBjzatQSoeeIEbc85jOTnS2QwO3j88JdXoJGxznSv75l2f/s320/Green+HK+-+10000+Buddha+Monastery.JPG" border="0" /></strong></div><div><strong>Fish market in Sai Kung</strong> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311861430378162498" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi83CqWgavbqxik1IfYZVqYf8rxigeTKnEz4cdMt22kSthLXrsRJSqDedDPZvEpiunuYpD05QVBf2K610KhUN_jO-VFXH0CzYWIvfqUXu4KyKMZV-x2GT2keHSl6MXw0KPLwLC_/s320/Green+HK+-+Sai+Kung+fishshop.JPG" border="0" /></div><strong>Tap Mun Island</strong><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311861430649315970" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhujCKHUzyLYKb-9w72aQtfLJAGNbrOj_Teunss-yaCW7UvnxJOHX7-3PyxslE0wmaVi9_P8iVvN0kdY33Fe5SL8yP9hJx_rnl_d8_adnz_jr4IjYs-1yYG7HeVW9Fh48lDiE77/s320/Green+HK+-+Tap+Mun+beach.JPG" border="0" /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311861422584193842" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3f7P6qRKSHHdZvXGdMKvPdmJp0A5nMtwv83wgrjpEWczcMeSJVO1R9KpnNqkOyadikVTYoHee_Z-XMm6lRy4WTV9O9JtxCze5Z9AyR7HE1qQTp3LP1Ear2pOCNjWy_kWp8TAh/s320/Green+HK+-+Tap+Mun+fishing.JPG" border="0" /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br /></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-49173584484370929522008-11-26T10:37:00.022+01:002009-05-23T05:58:09.615+02:00A glimpse of Kim's Juche dreamstate - part 2<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRabKYhBd_pEu5OocVIXFPDMwhWu-dRDpZEYc3ghM-lYkafMXoGMerrqUIyh0VcihkKWRhIqmObFLMnDrlDRUX_BeFlERszPO11KtPHLSx9WdTJyvnraYOxJWbBy4rStmqwY8/s1600-h/Our+guide+at+Panmumjom.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290036070994163042" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 300px; height: 400px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpRabKYhBd_pEu5OocVIXFPDMwhWu-dRDpZEYc3ghM-lYkafMXoGMerrqUIyh0VcihkKWRhIqmObFLMnDrlDRUX_BeFlERszPO11KtPHLSx9WdTJyvnraYOxJWbBy4rStmqwY8/s400/Our+guide+at+Panmumjom.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMp7nEYjGjFsCMTH8vhzi69DOzNhLQwI4wfL5H16xL6fQXEwYSlSO9zjD1sMX2E__IbOpgPkO1MV0tY_e_dgD4UmLXphxbww_Z0kGeaA0i5aMjfDlEaLiE7gRZcuGumH9MlnNv/s1600-h/Steep+hike+in+Mt+Myohyang.jpg"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><div><div><div align="justify">After a long karaoke night in our rocket-shaped hotel, we went next morning to the 'International Friendship Exhibition hall', which is also located in Mount Myohyang area. This exhibition hall consists of two huge palaces which display all the gifts to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jung Il from other countries. The presents to Dear and Great Leader are mostly from (former) socialist states like Cuba, Yugoslavia, Vietnam, etc. but still the site is impressive. Especially the exhibition hall of Kim Il Sung is absolutely huge with over 200 rooms. On the balcony we drank a nice coffee from where with had a beautiful view over the mountains. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoZIs_bDcM5KaAV3284AJKfG_AveIPTiUpys9vRbYAYvzAPJmbWsJ-pBPZtG40f9x_VpylwjcFZG-4tzuIPLMDKs0UM-b8EO3Ni700RCy84jqJX1VFZjjrDaU2Wq2M0pTv6R0/s1600-h/View+of+Mt+Myohyang+from+exhibition+hall.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290035679682921506" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoZIs_bDcM5KaAV3284AJKfG_AveIPTiUpys9vRbYAYvzAPJmbWsJ-pBPZtG40f9x_VpylwjcFZG-4tzuIPLMDKs0UM-b8EO3Ni700RCy84jqJX1VFZjjrDaU2Wq2M0pTv6R0/s200/View+of+Mt+Myohyang+from+exhibition+hall.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />From the Friendship Exhibition Hall we drove towards the mountains for a short hike in North Korea's nature. The paths were surprisingly well marked and the steep hike uphill brought us some nice views. The cold November weather made me appreciate the nice lunch back in the hotel and afterwards we drove back to Pyongyang. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmb0UVVvKtHQ_tWNX_LSp52Mha_5MfhonbnGWDo9qjft2LKYCFEjUK5W5MT_spx4xJJXsrJlHOwJbo0iyhlYSfbdRPaA6BT280QuVzDTxMvoKgRRwd5OGchvFpCoxivn2a1a8a/s1600-h/Steep+hike+in+Mt+Myohyang.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290035908259990050" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmb0UVVvKtHQ_tWNX_LSp52Mha_5MfhonbnGWDo9qjft2LKYCFEjUK5W5MT_spx4xJJXsrJlHOwJbo0iyhlYSfbdRPaA6BT280QuVzDTxMvoKgRRwd5OGchvFpCoxivn2a1a8a/s200/Steep+hike+in+Mt+Myohyang.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Back in the capital city we visited the planetarium of 'Three revolution exhibition', which showed us some Cold War stuff. It was interesting to hear our guide speak about North Korea's satellite Pyongyang-1 and she explained us some things about the planet system. The next stop on our tour was more interesting to me however. We visited the 'Fatherland Liberation War Museum', which (obviously) shows the Korean war from their perspective. The Americans are named 'US imperialist aggressors' and South Korea a 'puppet state'. What mostly impressed me is how alive the Japanese invasion of Korea in the 1930 still is in North Korea. While South Koreans live their life without caring to much about history, North Korea is pretty much stuck in their own interpretation of history. What North Koreans basically want is apologies from Japan and the US for invading the Korean peninsula. And walking around in the war museum really gives them good arguments to demand so. North Korea still sees the US military presence in South Korea as 'invasion', therefore they call South Korea a puppet state. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONjHZr81aRF93yEgLw5U7y2kGDFo7oW8FhWzSiOZN9dVuuQn4ZRNG1lb1YJYscbWeevX-QXFWVoaRjSMmO7YdYy0Syf-2ueM7odJnuZaJ7Gwc10AbSp24WUgHwvVrbV6HLJcw/s1600-h/Our+tourbus.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290035329207726770" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONjHZr81aRF93yEgLw5U7y2kGDFo7oW8FhWzSiOZN9dVuuQn4ZRNG1lb1YJYscbWeevX-QXFWVoaRjSMmO7YdYy0Syf-2ueM7odJnuZaJ7Gwc10AbSp24WUgHwvVrbV6HLJcw/s200/Our+tourbus.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">The creation of the European Union and the numerous apologies of Germany to the rest of the world brought stability in Europe and generally speaking most Europeans don't really judge Germany on their Nazi past. In East Asia things are very different as Japan never formally apologized for their cruelties in the first half of the 20th century. Although the average Chinese or South Korean people don't really seem to care much about it, like I mentioned, in North Korea it is very important. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTG7t8oLXqpm3fNkkvR2owv5DfacfI8hWcrPuIOSRJ5vt1IARi3PVsYnQZ3iAK0SNai8rZ5QcRdyVf1hRtWwGjGo-I_U6toiXonBc7Mom-ZCVhFYBeFDVvAFSaXgvn8K539T4/s1600-h/Poster+in+war+museum.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290035106899480178" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 154px; height: 200px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTG7t8oLXqpm3fNkkvR2owv5DfacfI8hWcrPuIOSRJ5vt1IARi3PVsYnQZ3iAK0SNai8rZ5QcRdyVf1hRtWwGjGo-I_U6toiXonBc7Mom-ZCVhFYBeFDVvAFSaXgvn8K539T4/s200/Poster+in+war+museum.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">On the other hand it is interesting that North Korea views itself as 'winner' of the Korean War in the 1950s (1950-1953). The material displayed in the museum suggests that Kim Il Sung almost solely beat the Japanese and Americans, but in reality (at least what I learned during history class) the military support from the Soviet Union and China brought the American army back to the 38th parallel. Concluding this history discussion, in my opinion both sides have strong arguments and I believe it is simply wrong to judge complicated wars like this one only by reading western history books. To me it was very interesting to hear the North Korean point of view, despite that they have different 'facts' and a bit naive way of displaying history.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlig0wgpgGKa5fHPofWiedWMAbqV-JgWpj_EnkW5oStwO-BOcNxZ9yG_6_v-trzP02EA6PzXink_CyOIDwXKfWU-gCN9g1AL8hbsQqwgY6YBmnXtnX2LXD_KEBX4XhOGzOrxoy/s1600-h/Empty+road+Pyongyang+to+Seoul.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290034524308164578" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlig0wgpgGKa5fHPofWiedWMAbqV-JgWpj_EnkW5oStwO-BOcNxZ9yG_6_v-trzP02EA6PzXink_CyOIDwXKfWU-gCN9g1AL8hbsQqwgY6YBmnXtnX2LXD_KEBX4XhOGzOrxoy/s200/Empty+road+Pyongyang+to+Seoul.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">After a hard topic like this, we visited an English language bookstore and we went to a bowling hall afterwards. It seems a bit strange to visit a bowling place during a tour through North Korea, but actually it was really nice to see how normal (read: wealthy) people enjoy themselves. We played a round of bowling and had dinner in a very good hot pot restaurant. Back in the hotel I played some games at the pool table. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzOq3oEeGtqMWaH1_4HQasRS7w7fg2b6eLDJmeCMY56T0mLbgLQBsFJeI_h9KwrkaK-jE4Zfg9RjndqTl1Og7CuHFsjN5Cy3078sGIrhfWP4q60pEhGPNZUPwuKj5fn_f2_re/s1600-h/Me+2+meters+in+South+Korea.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290034296287997586" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYzOq3oEeGtqMWaH1_4HQasRS7w7fg2b6eLDJmeCMY56T0mLbgLQBsFJeI_h9KwrkaK-jE4Zfg9RjndqTl1Og7CuHFsjN5Cy3078sGIrhfWP4q60pEhGPNZUPwuKj5fn_f2_re/s200/Me+2+meters+in+South+Korea.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Already the fourth day in North Korea started with a bus journey to Panmunjom, a small village in the Demilitarized Zone (the border with South Korea). The road towards Seoul is remarkably empty, it is a huge highway, but very few cars make use of it. On the way we passed some checkpoints and we stopped for coffee in a highway restaurant (we were obviously the only customers). The scenery on the way brought us a glimpse of North Korean countryside. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0GS1Yv8KmUL_jEPOrdhr1u3KXssscJ7DFxevqeILA6lrMxbOzq7mbmk85eBN2bcZxG84-DENATejcnj1YNS8kpTxUgo-TkG09AEiNUgvRKaByN4YtX4LRPydu-5E-mFEQQaO/s1600-h/Panmumjom.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290033287517770210" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0GS1Yv8KmUL_jEPOrdhr1u3KXssscJ7DFxevqeILA6lrMxbOzq7mbmk85eBN2bcZxG84-DENATejcnj1YNS8kpTxUgo-TkG09AEiNUgvRKaByN4YtX4LRPydu-5E-mFEQQaO/s200/Panmumjom.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1Lmwg89rn9gH3D1KxSttN8ScHmNIYAJDbFJcmelGBWQv8ZI4FQoa0WpbLzKp78yJtIElv5Uhfe-TPPaSdQo1Ys_e48fj_3T-CUs-vqGnspHB3X6GhiyofhczTWYEzIHkF1H5/s1600-h/Doggy+soup.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290033068245994114" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj1Lmwg89rn9gH3D1KxSttN8ScHmNIYAJDbFJcmelGBWQv8ZI4FQoa0WpbLzKp78yJtIElv5Uhfe-TPPaSdQo1Ys_e48fj_3T-CUs-vqGnspHB3X6GhiyofhczTWYEzIHkF1H5/s200/Doggy+soup.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">In Panmunjom we visited some meeting places where the US and North Koreans negotiated back in the 50s. Our guide (a soldier of the DPRK army) showed us the heavily guarded and fortified Demilitarized Zone (which ironically is one of the most heavily armed places in the world) and marched us at the actual border with South Korea. At the border we were able to visit one of the UN-blue colored negotiation buildings and I formally stand 2 meters in South Korea (inside the building). From a viewing platform we were looking straight at South Korea and we could see two huge flags weaving on each side. The flagpole with the North Korean flag is the largest in the world. This fact might explain a bit of the tensions I could feel at the Demilitarized Zone. Unfortunately I couldn't spot any South Korean soldier, but sometimes the North and South Korean soldiers are facing each other while guarding their side of the peninsula. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xhCAoRNt03Nu9EDR1TFw9mnyvn5n7oObir179WrDR2AqPRQ-6PSqljL40imQPpqTD7u7SF-vQZvAVdlD_aahN8tNqHCd_H85XBPmKisURK0z0AUqRyQJtix6Ay7miCLPnrpV/s1600-h/Kaesong.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290031211826170802" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xhCAoRNt03Nu9EDR1TFw9mnyvn5n7oObir179WrDR2AqPRQ-6PSqljL40imQPpqTD7u7SF-vQZvAVdlD_aahN8tNqHCd_H85XBPmKisURK0z0AUqRyQJtix6Ay7miCLPnrpV/s200/Kaesong.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Back out of the Demilitarized Zone we visited the city of Kaesong, 15 kilometers back on the road to Pyongyang. In Kaesong we had lunch in a traditional restaurant, my lunch consisting of kimji (hope I spelled correctly) and dog soup (!). Korea is famous for its dog soups and although the thought wasn't so nice, the soup tasted really good. It has some spices and especially the cold winter day (the meter recorded -5 that morning) made me appreciate it a lot. After lunch we made a quick picture of a statue of Kim Il Sung and we drove back to Pyongyang.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHjnLSbBy145yqzSYigtRJaH6vMPvD58VXYSA5kE-gDpotCGsX8h02CwMTrEV-tHjdwqhTNpF-t-LQ6aC7N3PMT7AX2qSlDD-F4X6h82dmkH-7BkYIL7_aQeY67vjbvTO5lOZ/s1600-h/Reunification+monument.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290031206547944946" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIHjnLSbBy145yqzSYigtRJaH6vMPvD58VXYSA5kE-gDpotCGsX8h02CwMTrEV-tHjdwqhTNpF-t-LQ6aC7N3PMT7AX2qSlDD-F4X6h82dmkH-7BkYIL7_aQeY67vjbvTO5lOZ/s200/Reunification+monument.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">Although this was the last full day in Korea, we still had some sights to visit. The first one is the reunification monument, again a huge monument dedicated to North Korea's wish of reunifying with the South. After that we drove to the Victorious Liberation War Monument, which has some decorations about soldiers during the Korean War. At the monument I spotted a group of young people marching passed us with a large red-colored flag. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVMG5QzykBer-W59em26PdQUOiL2XRVDmuDC3JsObo36wo058jX1rxYCy4qoyEY-BGmeRvmv6YjeQtIqHe_sJRy9fxPqR6UDUyq3GNaMBCXZ3QS1LsEwwBcolbrgj1Kc1uQU6/s1600-h/Kids+in+Children"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290030358802725330" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIVMG5QzykBer-W59em26PdQUOiL2XRVDmuDC3JsObo36wo058jX1rxYCy4qoyEY-BGmeRvmv6YjeQtIqHe_sJRy9fxPqR6UDUyq3GNaMBCXZ3QS1LsEwwBcolbrgj1Kc1uQU6/s200/Kids+in+Children%27s+palace.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">The last stop of our tour perhaps is the most impressive one, the School Children's Palace. Inside we saw amazing performances by children who study instruments, sports or art. What they do is basically practising all day with enormous discipline. Some play ping pong, others learn to play piano and others practise calligraphy. At the end we went to an amazingly choreographed show with dancers and singers (all children up to 12 years or so). It is hard to describe their abilities, therefore a small video below (not the main performance). At the end of the show we gave some flowers and a crowd of kids weaved us enthusiastically goodbye.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxYra7enlBnZZWdxSUsTTbMqS-C58QpXnNPM0_8kgztnQWD6Pb2rw6AreLIujy1BucXLqEbRGAwbzU' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">We finished the North Korea 'winter tour' in a duck restaurant and a karaoke hall. Our guides from Koryo Tours Nick, Simon and Hannah proved that they all have been living in East Asia for a while with their singing skills and it was a nice last night in Pyongyang.</div><div style="text-align: justify;" align="justify">The next cold morning (again around -5) I said our lovely guides goodbye and hopped on the train back to Beijing. The 5 hour ride to the border gave me an impression of Korean life in the countryside, although I couldn't save a lot of that pictures, because the DPRK border guards deleted some on my camera at Dandong border. Back in China I stayed a few more days in Beijing, finishing a paper in the hostel. And I went to the Great Wall at Badaling together with a Swedish guy Fredrik, who was on the North Korea trip as well, before taking a train back to Hong Kong. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipmfKkxZRDWfykRZh3jZoulPxj6qXYbkLTXiKf48igBiYVKVRQ_2OtfJkJe1YA5SvABhkMETJy-vdBbDINfvNYl0nDhDy8vmjcFX8n9ommkx5fBuotUaM5zGSA6cEaaMdzfG9W/s1600-h/Countryside+from+train.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290030352925516002" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipmfKkxZRDWfykRZh3jZoulPxj6qXYbkLTXiKf48igBiYVKVRQ_2OtfJkJe1YA5SvABhkMETJy-vdBbDINfvNYl0nDhDy8vmjcFX8n9ommkx5fBuotUaM5zGSA6cEaaMdzfG9W/s200/Countryside+from+train.JPG" border="0" /></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-30517986376097700252008-11-25T10:14:00.019+01:002009-05-23T05:58:32.124+02:00A glimpse of Kim's Juche dreamstate - part 1<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJyUpU708KIEb9vLKDl7vx1dKgsTqTfYklIkmkR7ffHx2m44Q_MjMnEMBaRBYOVhneMtlz9H0_k8dVjzMKr9QehFH18GxOr9dTp5cgz-5GHUZU7Fpg3uBCAZT0AY2fZgWTrBR/s1600-h/Tower+of+Juche+idea.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJyUpU708KIEb9vLKDl7vx1dKgsTqTfYklIkmkR7ffHx2m44Q_MjMnEMBaRBYOVhneMtlz9H0_k8dVjzMKr9QehFH18GxOr9dTp5cgz-5GHUZU7Fpg3uBCAZT0AY2fZgWTrBR/s400/Tower+of+Juche+idea.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287757288840048562" border="0" /></a>Before hopping on the Air Koryo flight from Beijing's capital airport, I thought I had seen some weird countries. Belarus is definitely one of them, Qatar I found pretty strange and how about semi-independent republics like Abkhazia or Iraqi Kurdistan. But comparing with the country I was flying to from Beijing, these places would become rather normal. The Air Koryo flight didn't just brought me in another weird country, it brought me in another world. A very surreal world. A world called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). My visit to the DPRK is one of my most memorable journeys so far, therefore quite a long report below.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div align="justify">November 11th, Hong Kong, China</div><div style="text-align: justify;">In order to get to the DPRK, I had to book a guided tour as it is the only way to get into the country. After some research in Hong Kong I found Beijing based <a href="http://www.koryotours.com/">Koryo Tours</a>, which offers relatively cheap tours and has a very good reputation. I contacted them, subscribed for the 'DPRK winter tour' and booked a train ticket to Beijing. A Canadian friend from university, Mark, decided to spend 5 November days in North Korea as well and in the morning of the 11th November we hopped on the 25-hour sleeper train to Beijing. Some other friends from university joined us to the Chinese capital and the 3 days I spent in Beijing were together with Mark, Edouard, Stephanie, Sebastian and Tatiana. Also I met my Bulgarian friend Kalin in our hostel and I spent most of my time playing Chinese chess with him.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeI2oT5xNvf50WakPKuKWByfQGZRPJUn6aq6EtOvCCNId5Cm4csjC9FBGC8XFweXaZgy65f8NPvvM1-f_v3sbKMdjm6vEMUrlM-1J0f2aMJWSqophZE_dDeCYSvBpgYUVHtsyN/s1600-h/Air+Koryo+flight+to+Pyongyang.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeI2oT5xNvf50WakPKuKWByfQGZRPJUn6aq6EtOvCCNId5Cm4csjC9FBGC8XFweXaZgy65f8NPvvM1-f_v3sbKMdjm6vEMUrlM-1J0f2aMJWSqophZE_dDeCYSvBpgYUVHtsyN/s200/Air+Koryo+flight+to+Pyongyang.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287765584904364002" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After three relaxing days in freezing Beijing, I went with Mark to the office of Koryo Tours for a final briefing of the tour through North Korea. We met our excellent guide Simon, who informed us about all the restrictions in the DPRK and gave us an impression on what to expect. The morning after we flew into Pyongyang.<br /></div><br />November 15th, Pyongyang, DPRK<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The very first contact with North Korea was already on the airplane from Beijing to Pyongyang. We flew on a very old-fashioned Russian-made Ilyushin-62 with an interior straight out of the 1960s. On the flight, the stewardess handed us North Korea's only English language newspaper, the Pyongyang Times, which propagates the DPRK's view on world issues. One article about two small islands in the Japanese sea, which are claimed both by Japan and Korea starts like this: "There are many countries in the world, but there is not such a shameless country as Japan which abuses history.......". The article continues summarizing the Japanese invasion of Korea during World War II and points out all the bad things the Japanese did in Korea. The page on 'International news' basically lists articles about people all over the world who burn flags of the 'US imperialist aggressor' and 'National news' mostly is about the success of the North Korean education system or other domestic industries.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjVdLh_P66xeBfpgUaVF97n4eIv7AtsVrPriMr050S9QTYXubnWX5lCg4JbtXVnvoT0ns8BmelMfQGTIRVxy5m_iuwyt8W2j64I_8PJQJ9E9ZNqaVnYn5rqsOYLTYfZ7WhZ8W/s1600-h/Central+square.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdjVdLh_P66xeBfpgUaVF97n4eIv7AtsVrPriMr050S9QTYXubnWX5lCg4JbtXVnvoT0ns8BmelMfQGTIRVxy5m_iuwyt8W2j64I_8PJQJ9E9ZNqaVnYn5rqsOYLTYfZ7WhZ8W/s200/Central+square.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287764744399300114" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The short flight brought us in Pyongyang airport, consisting of only a few Russian-made airplanes and a very simple concrete airport building. Prior to the customs and immigration checks we had to hand in our mobile phones, but the whole immigration process turned out to be much easier than expected (if you're looking for difficult border crossings try entering or leaving Russia). I walked out of the airport, talked a bit with my group mates and soon after we met our lovely local guides, mister Kim and the very charming miss Kim. We hopped on the bus which would be our transport for the following four days and the driver drove us to the North Korean capital Pyongyang.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My first impression of Pyongyang reminded me of my travels in the former Soviet Union. '<span style="font-style: italic;">Uninspiring concrete buildings, rusty trolleybuses, a ridiculous amount of statues, and cabbage; every</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> self-regarded socialist state has it all and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is no excepti</span><span style="font-style: italic;">on</span>'. This description of a British traveller in our group pretty much summarizes my thoughts during the first minutes in Pyongyang as it really seemed like any Russian city.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCisJ2gcCruVq_qdVfVSPRfGzRn2_Oovep8lgkWvFCeJWI9YmdDBY2YmebD6sBWj0xEIK09aGQdfCqCeHh5tV35YPXiW8t4gn01ELKsQGVt89xEukAKO8AHVSKVGt0GWVUnyI/s1600-h/View+over+central+Pyongyang.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgCisJ2gcCruVq_qdVfVSPRfGzRn2_Oovep8lgkWvFCeJWI9YmdDBY2YmebD6sBWj0xEIK09aGQdfCqCeHh5tV35YPXiW8t4gn01ELKsQGVt89xEukAKO8AHVSKVGt0GWVUnyI/s200/View+over+central+Pyongyang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287765575616871474" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The tour and the explanations of miss Kim however changed my opinion. First of all, North Korea is not a communist state, but has an ideology called Juche (meaning self-reliance) which is more like national-socialism rather than communism. And although Pyongyang seems like a Russian city, the people are very different. While Russians and Chinese enjoy freedom, economic growth and plan their future, North Korea is pretty much stuck in the Cold War and is too busy dealing with its history in my opinion.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The talks of miss Kim about Korean issues were quite naive, although honest. She talked about North Korea's food problems openly, but also stated that North Korea won the war in the 1950s and she believes Kim Il Sung (first president of DPRK) solely beat the Japanese and American aggressors. Marking this North Korean victory, the Arch of Triumph, is our first stop in Pyongyang. The Arch of Triumph is like the one in Paris, although a very proud miss Kim told us the North Korean arch is 3 meter taller.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5WXS3hwa5-fwMs5_4uLvcmeygXByiOEQKxGY9-DBi02tVv632Etv5VvlrWCACLvavokZhT4RYy6GBLoP0pfBaRJwZoHnFtpa6k8LT0-aThmZ3dozYHTfQ_0mMbGgTXDI8D2lh/s1600-h/Mansudae+monument.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5WXS3hwa5-fwMs5_4uLvcmeygXByiOEQKxGY9-DBi02tVv632Etv5VvlrWCACLvavokZhT4RYy6GBLoP0pfBaRJwZoHnFtpa6k8LT0-aThmZ3dozYHTfQ_0mMbGgTXDI8D2lh/s200/Mansudae+monument.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287764750216145154" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">From the arch we continued the city tour to the central Kim Il Sung square of Pyongyang. It is a huge square surrounded by concrete buildings decorated with slogans and symbols of DPRK. One of the buildings has pictures of Lenin and Marx on each side and another building carries a huge painted flag of North Korea. On the concrete of the square itself are lines of dots painted, which apparently mark positions for military parades.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88ZjzeKCIp1KW7mpbh3xkCZFh21ADeeE6xphafJ2vRNhmUkeX28O5DoOki3uYQPJivsvXkTGa5W88uHP77HT49qGXkg0SfTK04YWbY3uHVsYeIUvZLs3pFWFDnmiHt9Df12oc/s1600-h/Juche+tower.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj88ZjzeKCIp1KW7mpbh3xkCZFh21ADeeE6xphafJ2vRNhmUkeX28O5DoOki3uYQPJivsvXkTGa5W88uHP77HT49qGXkg0SfTK04YWbY3uHVsYeIUvZLs3pFWFDnmiHt9Df12oc/s200/Juche+tower.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287763649277195906" border="0" /></a><br />From the square our tour continued to fountain park, where ironically most of the fountains aren't working (although this might be due to the November cold). And from the park, a short stroll brought us to probably North Korea's most important site, Mansudae. It is an enormous bronze statue of 'Great leader' Kim Il Sung and all visitors to North Korea come here to show respect for Kim Il Sung. Simon bought some flowers and as a group we made a bow for him. Showing respect for Kim Il Sung is very important for our local guides. Simon mentioned it is like putting off your hat when entering a church, the way how Kim Il Sung ruled North Korea might not be accepted by western minds, but his ideology is what people believe in and that is what I respect. By the way, there are some rules on making pictures of the statue, it is prohibited to make a picture from the back for example and also you have to make a pic of the whole statue (like you can't cut off the legs). Mansudae is a bit higher than the city center and we enjoyed a nice view over Pyongyang.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJviE6vPyLOxMlxQHmKiL3Rf7sJVJ2XJhrIRq0NUma4BMEW3_sWII72LaSWOZ9DX-kKMIqQfYFW4YA0432QFjaxahxMRIjAaHf6CHh5iyIQEbYqtuw97fARq7pkPF5F7qwDUDl/s1600-h/View+over+Pyongyang.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJviE6vPyLOxMlxQHmKiL3Rf7sJVJ2XJhrIRq0NUma4BMEW3_sWII72LaSWOZ9DX-kKMIqQfYFW4YA0432QFjaxahxMRIjAaHf6CHh5iyIQEbYqtuw97fARq7pkPF5F7qwDUDl/s200/View+over+Pyongyang.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287763662259676130" border="0" /></a><br />Back in the bus, we drove along Pyongyang's clean, wide and empty streets to the Sosan Hotel. It is a huge 30 floor concrete building in the suburbs of the city, which was quite empty during our stay. In the evening I played some pool and drank a couple of beers with my group mates before going for dinner in a nice Korean restaurant. The hotel has a few shops inside to buy souvenirs, some drinks and snacks. And although mostly empty, the Sosan was a pleasant place to stay with a nice view over the city from my room.<br /><br />My ability to wake up early is highly underdeveloped, which meant that I didn't appreciate the 7am wake-up call from miss Kim so much. The reason of the early wake-up call is a fully planned schedule for our second day in DPRK, starting with a visit to Kumsusan memorial palace, which is the mausoleum of Great leader Kim Il Sung. In comparing Kim Il Sung's mausoleum with Lenin's and Mao's resting places in Moscow and Beijing, the latter two would become a big joke as the Kumsusan memorial palace is absolutely huge. There was a large crowd of North Korean people all waiting to pay respect to the body of the late Great Leader. As foreigner you can only get inside with a special invitation and everyone has to bow three times at the body of Kim Il Sung.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizOqUSLR2wjzDsMDdgvmaSYEWPGv7bd7U_DRmREmsk7RRi_kSMYAthx7PhAoJRzx04zzX5hLx2sBbZzkuhBezZ0MDIvdJpZQeqSRoJcx-JY_zvjjkF8ZrD1ccM9mmCpG8wdhuO/s1600-h/Kumsusan+memorial+palace.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizOqUSLR2wjzDsMDdgvmaSYEWPGv7bd7U_DRmREmsk7RRi_kSMYAthx7PhAoJRzx04zzX5hLx2sBbZzkuhBezZ0MDIvdJpZQeqSRoJcx-JY_zvjjkF8ZrD1ccM9mmCpG8wdhuO/s200/Kumsusan+memorial+palace.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287762258004305938" border="0" /></a><br />Kim Il Sung died in 1994, he was the leader of the DPRK since it's foundation in 1948. Interestingly, Kim Il Sung is officially still the president of North Korea, because he is regarded as the 'eternal president'. Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il now is <span style="font-style: italic;">de facto </span>leader of North Korea, he is officially 'General secretary of the Korean workers' party' (the ruling party of DPRK since 1948), 'Chairman of the national defense commission' and 'Supreme commander of the Korean people's army'. It basically means Kim Jong Il is the ruling leader of the DPRK, but not officially the president. Like his father is called the 'Great Leader', North Koreans name Kim Jong Il the 'Dear Leader'.<br />The mausoleum of Kim Il Sung actually was his former residence, rebuilt into a memorial palace by his son. Inside we noticed how Kim Il Sung is worshipped, virtually as a God. North Korean people believe in Kim Il Sung's Juche ideology and his 'incredible achievements' during World War II like Christians believe in the writings of the Bible or like Muslims believe in the Koran. People march in the palace with much discipline (our group had to do the same) and some queue up the whole morning just to pay respect to Kim Il Sung.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vvM6QahLDtMyS9_aM__yn9FHbisroENkyN1Bb2ODYIrqBMYLKkVAmNA8K0tb5aZdJ5Cxv5R31FWKbOdF4VlvAp0TtPyCYx9pt0bkNFHZdXKfJD9CI-zdXnAXSeie9AMp7JQg/s1600-h/Inside+PY+metro.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_vvM6QahLDtMyS9_aM__yn9FHbisroENkyN1Bb2ODYIrqBMYLKkVAmNA8K0tb5aZdJ5Cxv5R31FWKbOdF4VlvAp0TtPyCYx9pt0bkNFHZdXKfJD9CI-zdXnAXSeie9AMp7JQg/s200/Inside+PY+metro.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287762242656648850" border="0" /></a><br />In continuing our tour, close to the Kumsusan memorial palace is our next stop, the revolutionary martyrs' cemetery. In total about 120 small statues of guerrilla fighters and 'revolutionary martyrs' who died in the war against Japan are displayed on the hill. The view from the cemetery over the city is really nice, especially due to the clear winter sky, and from the hill we could see our next stop in the sightseeing tour, the 'tower of the Juche idea'. This Juche tower is built next to Pyongyang river and the view from the top is really stunning.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGi1EJPFLBpApsxSgnlWQFsJciP4kGeL6tPMEGAfgAaehkqra9AqjS1uRPFvBcI3-e96hqcht2qTlisd0iWrSyrBlkqZrgHcNBQ36TNJGK1G1cObnB_YMCfx5a_pgL-_L4MX7T/s1600-h/Outside+PY+metro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGi1EJPFLBpApsxSgnlWQFsJciP4kGeL6tPMEGAfgAaehkqra9AqjS1uRPFvBcI3-e96hqcht2qTlisd0iWrSyrBlkqZrgHcNBQ36TNJGK1G1cObnB_YMCfx5a_pgL-_L4MX7T/s200/Outside+PY+metro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287760273496043634" border="0" /></a><br />From Juche tower we went to Kim Il Sung's birthplace and we had lunch in Sosan hotel afterwards. In the afternoon we visited 'USS Pueblo', which is an American spy ship captured by the North Koreans in 1968. It is one of the most important tourist sights in North Korea, because the ship is used to point out that Americans are the 'aggressors' and attacked Korea by spying on them. Although the North Korean arguments mentioned in the video we saw on the ship are not exactly objective, in a way the Koreans make a point. The Korean peninsula has always been the victim of foreign powers. It was certainly not Korea who invaded US, but the US and Soviet Union who invaded Korea in 1950. Furthermore, the US policy towards North Korea has always been very aggressive in my opinion. The US accuses North Korea for having a nuclear program, but what would you do if you would be the leader of North Korea? With aggressive speeches of the guys in Washington, 35000 American troops still in South Korea and the fact that the USA has over 10000 nuclear warheads, I certainly would make a nuke if I would be in the position of Kim Jong Il.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GP98qvc6ozMEqiM2HS_cEFNULJaQE4-65pnD6gcbFMfa1RcUp1P27iHYiV8Pba6Ub4OmOKMDW9JoT-2wXKQ5PDqqgn9Y0nfms3drIqR4qr19P1iM2OwKjMSAQtZ1gWc2uiwV/s1600-h/Our+guide+for+USS+Pueblo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GP98qvc6ozMEqiM2HS_cEFNULJaQE4-65pnD6gcbFMfa1RcUp1P27iHYiV8Pba6Ub4OmOKMDW9JoT-2wXKQ5PDqqgn9Y0nfms3drIqR4qr19P1iM2OwKjMSAQtZ1gWc2uiwV/s200/Our+guide+for+USS+Pueblo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287762834315242578" border="0" /></a><br />After all this political talks on USS Pueblo, it is time to see some daily life in Pyongyang. We went on the Pyongyang metro, which turned out to be very interesting. It seems stupid to include a metro in a tour schedule, but in North Korea it is definitely worth a visit. As foreigner it is very very hard to have contact with North Korean people besides our guides and the people in the hotel. To be on the metro, we had an opportunity to see how normal people life and go to work. We had a feeling to be a bit in touch with the locals, although just very little. Also the metro stations are nicely decorated and it was interesting to see the various statues of the Great Leader inside the stations next to colorful painted walls with Juche propaganda.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuHLz_FA8sVcuGJMMbM57-tXYwhrZdlD_sZc2BY8ArUyvLc1rxJKjRbBvoJd2SB5nln5KAadonQHUz0SlZpLAR4KNHqzwmuCEwXAwFovShpgNxSrxjCtMZHK9sXY1xgz9IIcZ/s1600-h/Pyongyang+metro.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDuHLz_FA8sVcuGJMMbM57-tXYwhrZdlD_sZc2BY8ArUyvLc1rxJKjRbBvoJd2SB5nln5KAadonQHUz0SlZpLAR4KNHqzwmuCEwXAwFovShpgNxSrxjCtMZHK9sXY1xgz9IIcZ/s200/Pyongyang+metro.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287760278714257650" border="0" /></a><br />After our metro tour, we drove for 2 hours on an empty highway out of Pyongyang to Mount Myohyang. We stayed in a huge (and again pretty empty) hotel in the cold mountains. In the evening I played some snooker in the hotel and we enjoyed Korean karaoke (according to Simon the best karaoke room in Asia). As this story is getting very long now, I will continue this story of my trip through North Korea in part 2.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDw9jV7usVvlZj398HrMDLobkfhP4n10Yj7yuaIp5uMk8XI15-jo_dW_9LSJ-DMETtBFb393F3VKg53-Bxcnl0JTqMH9UOGcmijEA-jmqWHNJ3k15DxYBia3Adzfa28Vao4kLe/s1600-h/Our+guides.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDw9jV7usVvlZj398HrMDLobkfhP4n10Yj7yuaIp5uMk8XI15-jo_dW_9LSJ-DMETtBFb393F3VKg53-Bxcnl0JTqMH9UOGcmijEA-jmqWHNJ3k15DxYBia3Adzfa28Vao4kLe/s200/Our+guides.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287759571725291890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />NB: Due to some problems with my camera, not all these pictures are mine. Pictures: 2 (Air Koryo flights), 3, 5, 6 and 8 are all made by Mark Knibbs.<br /><br /><br /></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-52470856536976340662008-09-07T09:02:00.008+02:002008-11-06T08:33:59.033+01:00Sand and shoppingmalls: a stopover in Qatar<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATW_RQC0d0tNEnZgnaa-W1obW7vX9RvsBgd01SmYtoXkxm7O6jAktsye58fIVZq33Y9KxfvKW8s3i7GhpAR6Y8FpCbPbnP1xSDmXOoWXNek0dnIYFpnEFEuSHMEJBRpF_q8VS/s1600-h/SDC17031.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265442144867141618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATW_RQC0d0tNEnZgnaa-W1obW7vX9RvsBgd01SmYtoXkxm7O6jAktsye58fIVZq33Y9KxfvKW8s3i7GhpAR6Y8FpCbPbnP1xSDmXOoWXNek0dnIYFpnEFEuSHMEJBRpF_q8VS/s200/SDC17031.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">On my way from Frankfurt to Hong Kong, I planned a three day stopover in Qatar. I was flying with a really nice airline company, Qatar Airways, so far the best company I flew with. They call themselves 'the world's five star airline company', which I can pretty much confirm, because the flight was really comfortable. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdYDQsJynnhuVhoSW-9kl3qXKjPYyUTDwEffNV2e-wftITi60oy7_-sK4KxA5TJEM0nCL80fzoVD4X7rqx4JAcqvUr6k4VIHNRt6rmuaGarlJLXlghsNBU4-UdXlrZ3itiijk/s1600-h/Doha.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265440380626756290" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdYDQsJynnhuVhoSW-9kl3qXKjPYyUTDwEffNV2e-wftITi60oy7_-sK4KxA5TJEM0nCL80fzoVD4X7rqx4JAcqvUr6k4VIHNRt6rmuaGarlJLXlghsNBU4-UdXlrZ3itiijk/s200/Doha.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">It is 6am when I landed on Doha International Airport. Stepping out of the airplane, the hot air was blowing in my face like a hairdryer. It was early in the morning, but already well over 35 Celsius. I passed immigrations, waited for my bags, searched for a coffee and went outside the airport building to take a taxi. I told the taxi driver to take me to a small supermarket not so far from the airport. This is the place where I met my hospitalityclub contact Alp. Alp took me to his nice apartment and showed me the room where I could stay. The rest of the morning I slept. When I woke up, I talked a bit with Alp, who is a Turkish expat living in Doha. He told me some interesting things about Qatar and that he actually didn't like the country that much. We had a lunch and afterwards Alp drove me a bit around the city. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKnAuQpXHhuHUmYGvjz2EjoovODSi25FbuEANPLazU1v_clWHtklobiDRuHRSV0QGrwiw0Onw9zGLAZzNIgYDJr4QmDakXQqqAzWFg-boQfaYZAVJ4PEp86nd1bN4KGSYdTWE/s1600-h/SDC17088.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265440390976421138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKnAuQpXHhuHUmYGvjz2EjoovODSi25FbuEANPLazU1v_clWHtklobiDRuHRSV0QGrwiw0Onw9zGLAZzNIgYDJr4QmDakXQqqAzWFg-boQfaYZAVJ4PEp86nd1bN4KGSYdTWE/s200/SDC17088.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">It was really nice to have met Alp, because there is virtually no public transport in Doha at all and even taxis can be very hard to find. Basically everyone in Qatar has its own car. In the nice air-conditioned Toyota, Alp drove me around the low rise city. We drove past the 'Aspire tower' of the 2006 Asian games and stopped for some food at a fancy shopping mall. The mall had a remake of Venice inside and looks really like an American style shopping palace. In a country like Qatar, there is nothing much to do besides shopping. Because of the incredible heat, outdoor activities are not popular, so people tend to look for air-conditioned entertainment, like shopping. We walked a bit around the mall, drunk a coffee and continued the city tour. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PP6v4DkjknY6YsIPY8Hg5V2FRJpkH27KH8wV9g9sbyFGzCS0Wz-A05j1O7rGJrWb_bhejKFaMab5-N9OhEMDgYd2yHeduMbGn29gr4XgRNx9kbt33L0AclvrwX0vMU7yrhmp/s1600-h/SDC17087.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265440388843664146" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-PP6v4DkjknY6YsIPY8Hg5V2FRJpkH27KH8wV9g9sbyFGzCS0Wz-A05j1O7rGJrWb_bhejKFaMab5-N9OhEMDgYd2yHeduMbGn29gr4XgRNx9kbt33L0AclvrwX0vMU7yrhmp/s200/SDC17087.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">We drove along Corniche, a wide boulevard along the Persian Gulf, and continued to the heart of the city: the souk. Doha's souk is a really interesting place, although the souk is rebuild and doesn't look authentic, the atmosphere is quite nice. I found it very pleasant to walk through the small alleyways, past all the small shops with spices, antiques and clothes. Later on, we had a diner in a traditional Arab restaurant, where I met two of Alp's friends, a Turkish guy and a Hungarian girl. We had some coffees afterwards and drove back to the apartment. I watched a bit of the Olympic games and went to sleep.</div><div align="justify">Next day, Alp was working, which meant I was kind of stuck in the apartment. I didn't want to pay a taxi for the whole day and as there is no public transport, I couldn't really go to the city. I just stayed in the apartment, where I talked a bit with two Nepalese guys who were fixing Alp's air conditioner. As in other Gulf states like the Emirates or Bahrein, the ethnic composition of Qatar is really weird. It is weird because Qataris only make up about 20% of the total population. Most of the country's population consists of workers from South Asia (mostly Pakistan), Southeast Asia (especially Philippines) and expats from the West. Essentially, the Western expats are leading the oil companies, the workers from South and Southeast Asia are doing all the low-education jobs and the Qataris are shopping. It might be a bit simplistic, but this is what the division of labour seemed to me. The Nepalese guys I met were really friendly however and the rest of the day I just relaxed, watching the Olympics and using the computer.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYm49LaG5HiUMQ8UUvsMCWgvywUM4huTzZKGsPExqV4fJFz93YDPcJ8dDBX_bvovf_JkgbDbgRxsjGjJIgQJDJE4YO4VAMdygmB77XlDMXHpdp6C0BNFsNsGXynDQz2VuEmSf/s1600-h/SDC17044.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265442172805488290" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQYm49LaG5HiUMQ8UUvsMCWgvywUM4huTzZKGsPExqV4fJFz93YDPcJ8dDBX_bvovf_JkgbDbgRxsjGjJIgQJDJE4YO4VAMdygmB77XlDMXHpdp6C0BNFsNsGXynDQz2VuEmSf/s200/SDC17044.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">The day after I was able to explore some more of Qatar, because the Hungarian girl (I forgot her name) had a day off and offered to take me to the desert. She picked me up from the apartment and she drove me past some chemical factories southwards. We drove around a town just south of Doha, which is besides a nice mosque, not so interesting. The way further south was quite nice, we drove along a dry and sandy area and I spotted some camels. At the end of the road, we stopped and walked a bit on the sand dunes. </div><div align="justify">With a day temperature of 46 Celsius, climbing dunes is not exactly easy. I really like hot weather, but together with high humidity, everything above 40 Celcius is a bit too much. The view from the dunes was rewarding though and after climbing down we continued to the Persian Gulf. We stopped at a beach for a while and drove back to the city. In Doha, we walked a bit around the souk and afterwards I went back to Alp's apartment. I had a Turkish dinner with Alp and he brought me to the airport a bit later. I checked in for my connection flight to Hong Kong, where I landed 8 hours later. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqjXfv7XBfnWto4tv_av_sDEj9fnfqEJJtjyM5ZO_YqTLhBXKhhTr7Q9MInBIgvyAKjR1G91yqhfpnSFrJOciZ1bSDMhlCc3IjtGvTPLf6mYV-H1MsLad7oDKguM0ylZX2U9h/s1600-h/SDC17065.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265442160135945106" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKqjXfv7XBfnWto4tv_av_sDEj9fnfqEJJtjyM5ZO_YqTLhBXKhhTr7Q9MInBIgvyAKjR1G91yqhfpnSFrJOciZ1bSDMhlCc3IjtGvTPLf6mYV-H1MsLad7oDKguM0ylZX2U9h/s200/SDC17065.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KZfi9CoyGtBoZuEIP3xdhxG7QOdj0hZhWllbPqJAxavfj8UzYWlVWVQf0hOntK3jQirZZ6V453L32l2JXI7FjYJAe8sOXIAT1jVBP3UPfmYR_u6R2pnUj7VamAMckUqN5mvQ/s1600-h/SDC17057.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265442286632166770" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9KZfi9CoyGtBoZuEIP3xdhxG7QOdj0hZhWllbPqJAxavfj8UzYWlVWVQf0hOntK3jQirZZ6V453L32l2JXI7FjYJAe8sOXIAT1jVBP3UPfmYR_u6R2pnUj7VamAMckUqN5mvQ/s200/SDC17057.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-19983506761637269772008-09-03T07:37:00.011+02:002009-11-01T12:06:56.149+01:00Planned route 2008 - 2009<span style="font-weight: bold;">General map</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeiVQ8oeFCqM9_LoEVigAP9o2FvITghoVNYOdYnRmJfSXyrOflyfAWiYofw8QWdkfeAH6ZIer9AP9b08sHibrgoykBnFYHCWd10unP6fZZfF9pwsMxbxoHFDo7KrgEcoNlZs-VQ/s1600-h/route+map+asia.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 244px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoeiVQ8oeFCqM9_LoEVigAP9o2FvITghoVNYOdYnRmJfSXyrOflyfAWiYofw8QWdkfeAH6ZIer9AP9b08sHibrgoykBnFYHCWd10unP6fZZfF9pwsMxbxoHFDo7KrgEcoNlZs-VQ/s320/route+map+asia.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399087399647350642" border="0" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Southeast Asia</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGe8Rt2-mgJzwKfO3o1eJdNY4wnv86qNwxbn21yO1lvw4QyCukTD-5oqtnqW6kzzpA7kq5-FhinLGYobLttV7EoGwNW_C8jHmLUK0jyycMjG6QE5rl3q4NVtqF8UM-4xdr-kNZ/s1600-h/southeast_asia_ref_2000.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 282px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGe8Rt2-mgJzwKfO3o1eJdNY4wnv86qNwxbn21yO1lvw4QyCukTD-5oqtnqW6kzzpA7kq5-FhinLGYobLttV7EoGwNW_C8jHmLUK0jyycMjG6QE5rl3q4NVtqF8UM-4xdr-kNZ/s320/southeast_asia_ref_2000.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375734071635099442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">China and Korea</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttZjwkcatBR5RBzFURUByjtULam8of_7EcRweRQf0Q9uCKSsawr4zA-rzs_EKVEzGV09LUBGUyalCiFyHch2Ds5Ln_3i_tCamE6xmaFjc913nhMafNnRaR7_A6u-NPqJW4aXt/s1600-h/china-map.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhttZjwkcatBR5RBzFURUByjtULam8of_7EcRweRQf0Q9uCKSsawr4zA-rzs_EKVEzGV09LUBGUyalCiFyHch2Ds5Ln_3i_tCamE6xmaFjc913nhMafNnRaR7_A6u-NPqJW4aXt/s320/china-map.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375740872079909666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pakistan (KKH)</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R8Ja0CwDOAtb9iav1IRAUtDmM7ExwZRLiMEwLvnTbx8rsY7ep_ElgRpGnJsm8QR5mP8HuMKpNPjrzT5yUmxNnmnRpEGWLirPi3n1uNU6z2vLjPXCtHa69bAzL6sbjHVesC3wtQ/s1600-h/PAKISTAN+ROUTE.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 261px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6R8Ja0CwDOAtb9iav1IRAUtDmM7ExwZRLiMEwLvnTbx8rsY7ep_ElgRpGnJsm8QR5mP8HuMKpNPjrzT5yUmxNnmnRpEGWLirPi3n1uNU6z2vLjPXCtHa69bAzL6sbjHVesC3wtQ/s320/PAKISTAN+ROUTE.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399087408455388482" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Middle East </span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGebAfTvpV6IOMYGrC7IqjdeFSGa_hxHzQzSqVMmrGnHRYpcfdjRL-DJOW_E2gZbum9B40lxpyoFHxoWBzlJtdM01BGsXGqbsciaDWv5MXraX_i7siakQkgkIO2Nd2owdqVM0Gmg/s1600-h/middle+east+route.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 271px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGebAfTvpV6IOMYGrC7IqjdeFSGa_hxHzQzSqVMmrGnHRYpcfdjRL-DJOW_E2gZbum9B40lxpyoFHxoWBzlJtdM01BGsXGqbsciaDWv5MXraX_i7siakQkgkIO2Nd2owdqVM0Gmg/s320/middle+east+route.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399087404739483826" border="0" /></a> Click the map for a larger versionMarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-17861124952967803142008-09-02T11:15:00.000+02:002008-11-03T12:29:21.913+01:00Reminders of home<div align="justify">Back from my journey through the Baltics, Russia and Belarus, I stayed for 6 days in the Netherlands before catching my flight to Hong Kong. In the short period I stayed at home, I was busy visiting family and friends and preparing myself for the following 15 months abroad. The reason I start my journey in Hong Kong is because I am participation in a one semester exchange programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. After the four months in Hong Kong I plan to continue travelling around Asia, with Tashkent (Uzbekistan) as my final destination. I booked a flight to Hong Kong with Qatar Airways, with a scheduled stopover of 3 days in Doha, Qatar. </div><div align="justify">On the 21st of August, my mother brought me to Utrecht's trainstation, where I said goodbye to her and boarded the quick ICE train to Frankfurt-am-Main. I waited for a couple of hours in Frankfurt before taking my flight to Doha. In order not to forget about my homecountry, here a couple of pictures of the Netherlands (copied from google and wikipedia, I haven't made this pictures myself).<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264337460729513906" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKMDTg-IXZ1pSaIPHRdORiu-o3GSnkRaNGwjJ8kLS0p6ZrXlM_4pFr2a7SEtbQ2q1wDjiuC53W31FHLfBoeg6_EnBkogg7Xa0XS8Um7HL5Dea5LOpcylCMOsDX0Gm612tBTKvU/s320/cothen" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Cothen, the village where I grew up<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264337470315682178" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqDCCzfOHqvXwDP1YSrqi96swTX75TcSVJRXH93k-CfBNH_v3TRwtf_g5yECHf56jy-AUWGoH63SEJFThXLuxku1Y7NX6uSoizJa63hQQaleJeykSJ8SHOv0EQU3zpCFFcdsN/s320/Dom+Utrecht.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Utrecht, my birthplace and city where I study<img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264337472297281298" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTl8cRMvfudWuFHW2RquMwjvCgEDG-j4xmOhRgBZXgO_cA3NvJhrfz4dyp7AyK7iVlHPrEAKnttgIrozTw9RzZCNGg5cPRwTtW80_PuntKg8w8WJGlgMHxavDB6p4xZqTIxqCm/s320/Amsterdam+Keizersgracht.jpg" border="0" /></div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Amsterdam, the Dutch capital and my favourite city in the Netherlands</div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-39409578771152548452008-09-01T11:14:00.009+02:002008-11-05T08:32:55.969+01:00Traveling in 'the last dictatorship of Europe'<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcjpi27nyhb5b8-CLseQO9u6vgQjhBcAhdBSRaeaaEoRB6q4_oQMcvQgascI7QDnqfLCel4RAXWyzoqeNCY2RLu67qUmvjl7pA9OTotBV6d-3PuQUm16acCtOdw7rqLCNyJ1R/s1600-h/SDC16911.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265070686294515154" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcjpi27nyhb5b8-CLseQO9u6vgQjhBcAhdBSRaeaaEoRB6q4_oQMcvQgascI7QDnqfLCel4RAXWyzoqeNCY2RLu67qUmvjl7pA9OTotBV6d-3PuQUm16acCtOdw7rqLCNyJ1R/s200/SDC16911.JPG" border="0" /></a>Halfway on the four hour train ride from Vilnius to Minsk I crossed the Belorussian border. As a point separating the European Union from one of Europe's poorest and authoritarian ruled states, the Lithuanian border with Belarus is heavily fortified. From the train I watched at least ten kilometers of fences, cameras, checkpoints and soldiers passing by the window. The Belorussian border guards stamped my passport and I officially entered the republic of Belarus, or one of the 'outposts of <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">tyranny</span>' as <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Mr</span> Bush calls it. The landscape on the way revealed the welfare difference between Belarus and Lithuania, the villages and towns made a sad impression and I spotted almost no cars on the roads. My stay in Belarus' capital Minsk, however changed this first impression. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKjamBVeK5PiHMQCQm9vNA_BeqYSExSozop16CBseSghT7fGtZml98HqNC9UK61ZoFbHtv4f-xfsj3MEujppkv8bUD_sRlHJbed91mEA259uo1qtDN2kdYhJB5GTC9zKSUybK/s1600-h/SDC16881.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265070418978419650" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyKjamBVeK5PiHMQCQm9vNA_BeqYSExSozop16CBseSghT7fGtZml98HqNC9UK61ZoFbHtv4f-xfsj3MEujppkv8bUD_sRlHJbed91mEA259uo1qtDN2kdYhJB5GTC9zKSUybK/s200/SDC16881.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div><div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rHa3gjN7JTgRgbC5xB2BG2OC4Nq6fFN0bGXDLrfA8fXlLWEOS_Qn9NbCJyLsdfplE_8VO7xsCffkg6IL_voklsheecA7Xe0dsCcaQJsMwS8cvNVvS7hSwyR8XpPl1GZUfj1X/s1600-h/SDC16866.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265070686458560482" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rHa3gjN7JTgRgbC5xB2BG2OC4Nq6fFN0bGXDLrfA8fXlLWEOS_Qn9NbCJyLsdfplE_8VO7xsCffkg6IL_voklsheecA7Xe0dsCcaQJsMwS8cvNVvS7hSwyR8XpPl1GZUfj1X/s200/SDC16866.JPG" border="0" /></a>Like in Russia, I also organised free accommodation in Minsk. I met my <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">couchsurfing</span> contact Elena soon after I arrived that night on the central station. Elena took me to her father's apartment, where I stayed for the following three days. Elena and her father, who trades in toys, were really nice to me and showed me warm Belorussian hospitality. I drunk some vodka with Elena's father the first night and we talked a bit about our countries. Next day, I walked around the remarkably clean streets of Minsk, stopping by the main square, the parliament and the former KGB building. When I ate a cheap pizza in an Italian restaurant called '<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Il</span> patio', I met a commander of the Serbian army named <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">Dragan</span>. We started talking and he shared his impressive war stories with me. As a student in Political Geography, I listened with much interest to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">Dragan's</span> anecdotes about his career in the Serbian army. He fought in Bosnia, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">Kosovo</span>, Congo, Angola and Iraq and was waiting for his next assignment in the just started conflict in South <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">Ossetia</span>. Later on we walked together along Independence Square and the former apartment of Lee Harvey Oswald (although both the CIA and the KGB never admitted Oswald lived there).</div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0hx7uVhg7VGlVz6kDIJI4GHPG0hIj8s7_Kae1FHcCaeceLQ3fw5vi1tM2nzEqxW71fBw2z1J7rTqJPzXpFaFjMbU3friWvlVtNaC2zKlakEh9iZzg3K2oIMlnfl02kEaKaGh/s1600-h/SDC16918.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265070422417356370" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0hx7uVhg7VGlVz6kDIJI4GHPG0hIj8s7_Kae1FHcCaeceLQ3fw5vi1tM2nzEqxW71fBw2z1J7rTqJPzXpFaFjMbU3friWvlVtNaC2zKlakEh9iZzg3K2oIMlnfl02kEaKaGh/s200/SDC16918.JPG" border="0" /></a>Next day I visited the Belorussian national museum with Elena and we had lunch in a good restaurant afterwards. A bit later I met <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">Dragan</span> again, with whom I drunk a couple of beers and walked for a couple of hours in some of Minsk's nice parks. From my conversations with Elena and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">Dragan</span>, I got the impression that Belorussian people are quite reserved and shy. Interestingly, Belarus doesn't really have its own national identity, because it was strongly suppressed throughout its whole history (first by the Polish-Lithuanians, after by the Soviets). Although Belorussians have their own language, nobody really uses it. Russian practically is the main spoken language in Belarus and Belorussians identify themselves mostly as Russian.</div><div align="justify">Walking along the wide boulevards of Minsk, I saw numerous slogans saying 'I love you Belarus' as well as lots of pictures of president <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">Lukashenko</span>. And although Minsk is a very safe city, I felt some kind of tension, because I realised that people are a bit afraid to speak openly and everyone basically stayed at home during the night (only prostitutes and mafia guys go to the ridiculously expensive bars). For example, Elena got really scared when I tried to make a picture of the parliament. Also I found it very hard to approach people.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oZ0oEjXE4NfGUn0DLChjp0TgS5RtNFda8bd7ycZfyy39EviVJy2MWpTFqHGt5uGHbroxiwARe34940RutNtf2qI_wBHVqXicPOU_SvLGlfn-dvJxV7-LfgkNbsIqm77PAP4s/s1600-h/SDC16946.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265069955746548962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4oZ0oEjXE4NfGUn0DLChjp0TgS5RtNFda8bd7ycZfyy39EviVJy2MWpTFqHGt5uGHbroxiwARe34940RutNtf2qI_wBHVqXicPOU_SvLGlfn-dvJxV7-LfgkNbsIqm77PAP4s/s200/SDC16946.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1NeKXo5uto_VrM2CSKagD-ngiisX4mQI-GCnDOEOv6vaB6mNA6LNUDsd56ahKoHhKY6-7SxzMox8945QC3Ht0IDyTy5jkefgLFzXf3YkD0NBs5RC4Xrud0CYndUSvaNIjourw/s1600-h/SDC16939.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265070151929823938" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1NeKXo5uto_VrM2CSKagD-ngiisX4mQI-GCnDOEOv6vaB6mNA6LNUDsd56ahKoHhKY6-7SxzMox8945QC3Ht0IDyTy5jkefgLFzXf3YkD0NBs5RC4Xrud0CYndUSvaNIjourw/s200/SDC16939.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">After my stay in Minsk, I moved on westwards by night train to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Grodno</span>, a midsized city next to the Polish border. I dropped my bags in the apartment of a young couple, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">Oleg</span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">Irinka</span>, and walked around town after. In three hours, I basically saw all the churches, castles and parks of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">Grodno</span>, which really is a quiet and clean town. I had a dinner in a cheap restaurant, where surprisingly I heard a song in Dutch language on their radio. During the evening I stayed in the apartment, figuring out how to travel to my next destination Brest. </div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfTWGqusfT5c90RIwaPTZ1GwmtJkBz2OvjIk3IB7GtAMqPwcULMw4JZcmSb6PWfTqvgH3rZxW4ghmazqGkoG2CEHOTX0nBCjCFX8wQUW0nEX2qWUrQUp3Rw1C2nQ45QZj2bnG/s1600-h/SDC16975.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265069948687627938" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCfTWGqusfT5c90RIwaPTZ1GwmtJkBz2OvjIk3IB7GtAMqPwcULMw4JZcmSb6PWfTqvgH3rZxW4ghmazqGkoG2CEHOTX0nBCjCFX8wQUW0nEX2qWUrQUp3Rw1C2nQ45QZj2bnG/s200/SDC16975.JPG" border="0" /></a>As public transport to Brest is quite inconvenient, I decided to hitchhike. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Oleg</span> brought me to the main road early in the morning and directly after I pulled out my thumb. After waiting for over 40 minutes, a rusty <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">GAZ</span> truck stopped for me and offered to take me to a town 30km further. The guys were delivering groceries to some small shops in the area and were really friendly. They brought me to the junction towards Brest, where I tried to stop another car. Again I waited for quite some time, before a man stopped for me and brought me about 50km further. He dropped me off at a junction, 6km from a town called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">Voltovysk</span>. This junction was in the middle of a forest and the continuing road to Brest didn't had a lot of travel. It caused that after waving my arm for 2 hours already, I gave up hitchhiking and decided to walk to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">Voltovysk</span> to continue by public transport. However, as all the buses already left and the next train was only late at night, I was kind of stuck in this town. I decided to wait for the train and I spent my time eating some bread and salad. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXY8kkyMNcDle0YXLs-gsK3WMtbyjMOyIEpDLFJ-n-U_XUPXHwBaTETf1L1uaaIeytZY5N4qnn-aW9XMNAyQexwu3g-zsPdLw0YE9JHRfEfizRYk_xEY8CTdusqHHFU6Pz65-e/s1600-h/SDC16982.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265069556445630578" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXY8kkyMNcDle0YXLs-gsK3WMtbyjMOyIEpDLFJ-n-U_XUPXHwBaTETf1L1uaaIeytZY5N4qnn-aW9XMNAyQexwu3g-zsPdLw0YE9JHRfEfizRYk_xEY8CTdusqHHFU6Pz65-e/s200/SDC16982.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">I took the train to a town called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">Baranaviki</span>, from where I hopped on a terribly slow night train (9 hours) to Brest. To conclude my hitchhiking attempt: Belarus definitely is one of the most difficult places I tried. But yeah, I arrived in Brest after all. My intention was not to spend the night in Brest, but to buy a train ticket back to Netherlands. The train to Amsterdam however is very expensive, so I decided to take the night train to Berlin first. But before taking the train, I still had a full day in Brest to spend. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDg7-Mzuwi-BI6psTgyG6Ddo-gHxmbJwP4ozxPZ58U9yNrAL340fQMK__XzQAy7tklx5qZ1zKPLHd31h0z-25Yqyi_qsWyU6654WBE8fIcGzfhzePu2ykBGRf_qvEnJzwujqHe/s1600-h/SDC17010.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265069553105038610" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDg7-Mzuwi-BI6psTgyG6Ddo-gHxmbJwP4ozxPZ58U9yNrAL340fQMK__XzQAy7tklx5qZ1zKPLHd31h0z-25Yqyi_qsWyU6654WBE8fIcGzfhzePu2ykBGRf_qvEnJzwujqHe/s200/SDC17010.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">Brest is one of the Soviet Union's 'Hero cities', because it was heavily attacked during the second World War. As the city is only 6km from the border with Poland (along the road to Warsaw), it was the first Soviet city to be attacked by the Nazi's as part of Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The city therefore is famous for its red bricked fortress, which was the main site of the fighting. I visited the fortress after a long walk from the train station. The entrance gate directly is very impressive, with a huge star carved out of concrete and I heard war music being played. Inside the fortress, I went into the small history museum and walked a bit around the red walls full of bullet holes. On the main square inside the fortress was a group of young soldiers marching (see the video), which I watched for quite some time. On the very hot day, I felt a bit sorry for the guys who were constantly marching around under the fierce sun.<br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzVbbZlFPEqU8gm4tnSv5K3BWrZZZ-M-7AwZHNCKZowRo_XQYoFavT-WU7j6kAlb7AgLbamqSW0WPY' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br />With over three hours already spent in the fortress, I walked back to the city for some food. A couple of hot dogs and beers later, I made my way back to the station, where I passed immigrations and entered the train to Berlin. The ride to Berlin was very comfortable, although I desperately wanted to take a shower, since I didn't had that possibility for the past 2 days. Upon arrival in Berlin, I bought another ticket back to my hometown Utrecht, where I arrived that evening. </div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38902507.post-2920888522487730182008-08-25T11:13:00.014+02:002008-11-02T09:48:52.731+01:00Tatarstan and the Golden Ring7.30 am Kazan', Tatarstan, Russia <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6R7c8xPFJi_ZZGywERfjy9XlmL-nNvHVc7yHkRMu0FsMWQGB7w0lsTV18mQbwPmhG2ykC1AO2xeQ1AUfWWTtOya7UQxBmp48viXPBJDnyspYLo_wzIZuEYOYxqftaG1jDIle/s1600-h/SDC16778b.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263978360952182626" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX6R7c8xPFJi_ZZGywERfjy9XlmL-nNvHVc7yHkRMu0FsMWQGB7w0lsTV18mQbwPmhG2ykC1AO2xeQ1AUfWWTtOya7UQxBmp48viXPBJDnyspYLo_wzIZuEYOYxqftaG1jDIle/s200/SDC16778b.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2eHqIKSzSfCfAz1l0bMa8EcHBCZW8OQrJ9KVaDxhLC941ZrBQL23Lyz_yc41coBf0thRW6fFvEiuBnYu8SJl71manL9lVP_U_HeBX9Liso90cRrg5GRdjNkr2IatPUK_1bT0s/s1600-h/SDC16778b.JPG"></a><br /><div><div><div><div><div><div align="justify">The provodnitsa (conductor) wakes me up. Still half sleeping I look out the window of the night train I took from Nizhny Novgorod. The train rides over the long Volga bridge, I can see a white walled kremlin with both a huge blue mosque and an Orthodox cathedral inside. I see two flags waving on top of a government building. One Russian flag and one green-white-red Tatar flag. I just arrived in the capital of Tatarstan Republic: Kazan'. </div><div align="justify">After getting of the train, I walked to the city center, where I found a place to have a breakfast. I continued my way around town to the post office, to use the internet. I called my two contacts in Kazan', Timur from <a href="http://www.couchsurfing.com/">couchsurfing</a> and Danil, through <a href="http://www.hospitalityclub.org/">hospitalityclub</a>. At noon, I met Timur, a Korean traveller Joshua and Timur's friend Aleksander. Together we drove around the city and Timur told us a lot about the turbulent history of Kazan' and showed us the kremlin and other interesting landmarks. Driving around Kazan', I noticed that the city is remarkably clean (unlike other Russian cities) and it seemed very prosperous. Actually, Tatarstan is one of the richest regions in Russia, mostly because of the large oil reserves under it's soil. There is a lot of construction going on in the city and the wealth of Tatarstan is shown in its buildings and streets. A very clean city, with expensive cars driving the streets and people wearing expensive clothes. Kazan' is one of Russia's success stories, both economically, but also in sports. Kazan's ice hockey team is one of the best in Russia, Timur was very proud of the Tatarstan basketball team and Rubin Kazan', the local football club was leading the Russian premier league at the time I was there. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-li8wrd5_2_HBICmKblO0BE5gASRyUVXNnp1SuJd9q7_QLfjmMURzPORg6RGgHI2vKITnoVry4ERaUfcY281AAVdSTPlcEWSNCTLXxYsgX685j7c6vQkjjNzm2hPQORH_-Slw/s1600-h/SDC16779.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263978447901944882" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-li8wrd5_2_HBICmKblO0BE5gASRyUVXNnp1SuJd9q7_QLfjmMURzPORg6RGgHI2vKITnoVry4ERaUfcY281AAVdSTPlcEWSNCTLXxYsgX685j7c6vQkjjNzm2hPQORH_-Slw/s200/SDC16779.JPG" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-WCs5Cdr4K4rYPsM_SzrDO5vh19sYBtipIjLskxDMDtMMMwtYxVEcZ3vARu1ilUw_oGlwr__I1jwM7oMJYkeqY6pq5WgBlhyPfebRToVlCjCiIGLKyocwl9PIYR1qUmKLTSM/s1600-h/SDC16813.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263978220656468274" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-WCs5Cdr4K4rYPsM_SzrDO5vh19sYBtipIjLskxDMDtMMMwtYxVEcZ3vARu1ilUw_oGlwr__I1jwM7oMJYkeqY6pq5WgBlhyPfebRToVlCjCiIGLKyocwl9PIYR1qUmKLTSM/s200/SDC16813.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">Besides Kazan's wealth, the city very much is a meeting point between eastern and western cultures and it definitely is the most exotic place I visited in Russia. Half of the population is ethnically Tatar, who are descendants of Genghis Khan's Golden Horde and religiously Islamic. The main street is blessed with Turkish kebab restaurants and Turkish Efes beer is the main drink here. I saw some restaurants called 'Fata morgana' or 'Fatima' and Kazan's skyline is dominated by a big mosque. </div><div align="justify">With Timur and Joshua, I ate a Tatar national dish, called Chak-Chak in a local restaurant. Afterwards we continued our tour and I got to know Timur and Joshua a bit better. Timur showed us the impressive kremlin, which is unique in the world, because it has both a mosque and a cathedral inside. Not counting Turkey, the mosque in Kazan' is the largest in Europe and also one of the newest as it was completed just 5 years ago. Furthermore, the kremlin is filled with nice parks and some government buildings, including the palace of Tatarstan's governor. After the kremlin we visited the university, where Lenin studied in his younger years. A statue of 7 year old Lenin is standing in front of main university building. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktqjpAQuoNnkrEzp7KaPZuk_4jqet8XMIkSspi0WqD7pPDgpdENpPoiY9cdbTj09PZKZEN0mEAP7rgLsG23QlLKN5tL1Z_o1ANzT_umWJNJlmxTa-dkGotzK8_dIXPtmWgT1J/s1600-h/SDC16784.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263978225606237794" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhktqjpAQuoNnkrEzp7KaPZuk_4jqet8XMIkSspi0WqD7pPDgpdENpPoiY9cdbTj09PZKZEN0mEAP7rgLsG23QlLKN5tL1Z_o1ANzT_umWJNJlmxTa-dkGotzK8_dIXPtmWgT1J/s200/SDC16784.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">In the evening we met Danil, my hospitalityclub contact, in who's apartment Joshua and I stayed for the night. Danil also took us around the city, where we met a lot of his friends. We drunk some beers together and I had good opportunities to practise my Russian, as none of them really spoke English. Danil and his friends are really cool people and I was very glad that I met them. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3xgMQPkaLyEoujul0vnA8BNSVVtNeagXTLRSFoA8BGyNOTByBaSYkwn5tnIvqdTcKDpP3lLY9EkptNHuqU58MnzzLrMbU6cyEfNtUwedAikdeQa7kb8smbDX2u670zmi7oV1/s1600-h/SDC16810.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263977985883978242" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW3xgMQPkaLyEoujul0vnA8BNSVVtNeagXTLRSFoA8BGyNOTByBaSYkwn5tnIvqdTcKDpP3lLY9EkptNHuqU58MnzzLrMbU6cyEfNtUwedAikdeQa7kb8smbDX2u670zmi7oV1/s200/SDC16810.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">Next day, Joshua left by train. I decided to stay a couple of days more and I walked around the market with Danil's father Isdyl. Later on, I visited the Tatarstan national museum and went with Danil a bit out of town to have a swim in 'Sinnoe Ozero' (Blue Lake). The lake is very special, because the water temperature never changes during the year. It always stays at 4 degrees Celsius. People dip in the lake, because they believe it is very healthy. With 4 degrees, the water is very very cold in summer, but as it the lake never freezes, it is relatively warm in winter. I took a quick dip in the lake, but I got out as fast as possible. After Danil's third swim, we left the lake. A group of fat drunk man came and they were pushing each other in the water.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio616DUbvj2CO_Sr93A2owyjJ2pWzH2H69F1D0gFP3h45I2knRVKNklc80kxL3nsJYkT_zWLo4w3-y8UwVvfsnTMzaLMTLi-kniAyXcxD_0h22t72HNjU2ne_QHwP_PPguZXlY/s1600-h/SDC16800.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263977981930467330" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio616DUbvj2CO_Sr93A2owyjJ2pWzH2H69F1D0gFP3h45I2knRVKNklc80kxL3nsJYkT_zWLo4w3-y8UwVvfsnTMzaLMTLi-kniAyXcxD_0h22t72HNjU2ne_QHwP_PPguZXlY/s200/SDC16800.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">My last day in Kazan', I just walked around a bit by myself, stopping on the way for a great Adana kebab and a beer on a terrace. Quite remarkably, the waitresses in the cafe where I sipped my Efes, were carrying guns with them. When I asked them about the pistol, they told me it was for protection.... Back in Danil's apartment, I relaxed a bit and went to the train station for a train back to Nizhny Novgorod. Arriving in Nizhny, I hopped on another train further west, to the Golden Ring city of Vladimir.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j7u3CXEsVtB2RLBawRXbS1YYSEx4tTukPOBQrTvJmfIR2AdHmuZbct3p6I8e5pPX8rl7wRPD3xhqwR0ovJfciPnk6eY4bjOHJIPccvuhXXC685cs761u47PJmcUsh6SiY85i/s1600-h/SDC16826.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263976412029901426" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3j7u3CXEsVtB2RLBawRXbS1YYSEx4tTukPOBQrTvJmfIR2AdHmuZbct3p6I8e5pPX8rl7wRPD3xhqwR0ovJfciPnk6eY4bjOHJIPccvuhXXC685cs761u47PJmcUsh6SiY85i/s200/SDC16826.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwQN3cfyLiXyLi88k9Ul7bb2rDFH5BOFNXZuxYpihKwjDXaBiD2OVf9H32n_KZ9qt26clQDzFYkHRftPa4LDt2_n3-xryE7yLSZv-nFSK5FrYyRCPnDDWwj9wEIlrzWM6Eopl/s1600-h/SDC16824.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263976419710300978" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFwQN3cfyLiXyLi88k9Ul7bb2rDFH5BOFNXZuxYpihKwjDXaBiD2OVf9H32n_KZ9qt26clQDzFYkHRftPa4LDt2_n3-xryE7yLSZv-nFSK5FrYyRCPnDDWwj9wEIlrzWM6Eopl/s200/SDC16824.JPG" border="0" /></a>Also in Vladimir I had a couchsurfing contact, a friendly girl named Yulya. She made some 'pelmeni' (Russian dumplings) for me and we walked around town together. Although is was bit of a rainy day, I enjoyed the sightseeing tour. Vladimir is a provincial town not far from Moscow and it is filled with churches. I visited some churches and went to a viewing point for a view over the countryside. Yulya and I ate in a traditional Russian restaurant and shopped for classical Russian DVDs afterwards.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrEmhFppBpen86RH6YkmkqkJfXF3Zlf6bpDJCdRRvW53KGOzOo420Pj2RE2zq7CM6Qo62LjNsfD2rHXM6YmM-7O2Z2re4_DmqqXLLe11RQHY8lLlb8WkGtftmxuxU6_foOaKd/s1600-h/SDC16833.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263976886533716866" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKrEmhFppBpen86RH6YkmkqkJfXF3Zlf6bpDJCdRRvW53KGOzOo420Pj2RE2zq7CM6Qo62LjNsfD2rHXM6YmM-7O2Z2re4_DmqqXLLe11RQHY8lLlb8WkGtftmxuxU6_foOaKd/s200/SDC16833.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">Next day, I hopped on a bus to a fairytale village called Suzdal. On the bus I met an old woman who gave me some advise on where to go and she showed me the way. The whole day I walked around the town, which is famous for its amount of churches. Suzdal is a village with not more than 12.000 inhabitants, but it has over 30 churches and even its own kremlin. The town is very colorful, because of all the onion domed churches and its colorful wooden houses. It really felt like I was walking in the setting of a fairytale child movie, except for the rainy weather. After eating a 'stolichniy' salad and some bread, I bussed back to Vladimir, where I hopped on another bus to Russia's capital Moscow. </div><div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTiBVkDQ2wUw8SY2UfJBAREFmJtG25ogwKTCznaZrf8GoW3SeewpMSFDX8jR9BRRV-6xL3KFdUbPX7GNVhSFvXCfzUXjIV6hz2HaUV88CvE9AkSaLoOOvPVOY-kX3vnkzuvjj/s1600-h/SDC16844.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263976879719690018" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRTiBVkDQ2wUw8SY2UfJBAREFmJtG25ogwKTCznaZrf8GoW3SeewpMSFDX8jR9BRRV-6xL3KFdUbPX7GNVhSFvXCfzUXjIV6hz2HaUV88CvE9AkSaLoOOvPVOY-kX3vnkzuvjj/s200/SDC16844.JPG" border="0" /></a>Arriving in Europe's largest city, I got a bit lost the first hour. Luckily I found my way and took a metro to 'Oktyabrskaya Ploshad' (October square), where I met my couchsurfing contact Deric. I just stayed one night in Moscow, because my Russian visa was expiring. Deric made my stay very pleasant however, as his apartment is very nice (Deric is a diplomat working for the Philippines embassy) and I met some other couchsurfers there. I really enjoyed discussing Russian politics with Deric. Like I said he is a diplomat and has so much knowledge about what is going on in the world. It was just for one night though, because I left Moscow the night after. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuu_rvqivTQ6hhLWIkg3m6S4fxvLVogn-ZxoHpHdYG9Sllbs3mjHFT597GoMgZLEit5kKpxyOKxq_HOoK7CnGSpkWybOOGLP8r4MYKzzwz3kDHCbi2jnGeyj5AVASEnLrzTGp/s1600-h/SDC16846.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263976404688062482" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzuu_rvqivTQ6hhLWIkg3m6S4fxvLVogn-ZxoHpHdYG9Sllbs3mjHFT597GoMgZLEit5kKpxyOKxq_HOoK7CnGSpkWybOOGLP8r4MYKzzwz3kDHCbi2jnGeyj5AVASEnLrzTGp/s200/SDC16846.JPG" border="0" /></a></div><div align="justify">During the next day, I just stayed in the apartment. As I have been to Moscow before, I didn't feel like walking in the rain that day. In the evening I went to the trainstation, for my train to Rezekne, Latvia. Actually my intention was to travel to Belarus, but because I had to get a visa first, I decided to go to Belarus through Latvia and Lithuania. In the small town of Rezekne, I took a very slow bus to Latvia's second city, Daugavpils, from where I searched for transport to Vilnius (Lithuania). However, there were no busses nor trains going from Daugavpils to Vilnius, which ment I had to hitchhike. It was surprisingly easy to hitchhike in Lithuania (later I found out that it officially is one of the easiest hitchhiking countries in Europe) and with two different rides I arrived in Vilnius. </div><div align="justify">In the night, I went to a club with some Belgian guys I met in the hostel. Next day I arranged my Belorussian visa through a friendly agency called Viliota. It was really easy to obtain the visa at this agency and the day after I was ready to travel to Belarus. While waiting for my train to Minsk, I walked a bit around Vilnius with an Australian guy, Denis. We played some pool and sipped a cold beer on a terrace. Later on I hopped on a rusty train to the Belorussian capital Minsk. </div></div></div></div></div></div>Marthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951013149347872294noreply@blogger.com